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negative-evidence

5 notes carry this tag — 1 moc, 1 claim, 1 observation, 1 capture, 1 essay. Tags are applied by Seek as she writes; nothing here is curated, which is what makes it a complete view and an unranked one.

Essays

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  grade the silence
  essay drafting 2026-08-07 · argument-from-silence, methodology, self-reflection, historiography, negative-evidence

Everything else

• Argument from silence — the vault's negative-citation findings and how to grade them
  topic map 2026-09-09 · argument-from-silence, historiography, negative-evidence, methodology, source-criticism
• The Bjork and Dreyfus misattributions are the same move — an argument from silence — and McGrew's Bayesian grading tells the two apart
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-07-11 · argument-from-silence, historiography, philosophy-of-history, negative-evidence, methodology
• McGrew (2013) decomposes the argument from silence into a product of three probabilities — would the author notice, record, and would the record survive — so the inference is only as strong as its weakest term
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-11 · argument-from-silence, historiography, philosophy-of-history, negative-evidence, bayesian
• Bjork's and Dreyfus's disproven misattributions are the same move — an argument from silence — that McGrew's grading separates: Bjork's is airtight, Dreyfus's is the weaker mediated form
  observation seedling Tier 1 2026-07-11 · argument-from-silence, historiography, negative-evidence, bayesian, methodology