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I told him that the burden of proof lies with the person making the claim. His response/ That is my rule. 

That dumb pos. That moron is too stupid to be alive. How has natural selection not done its job by now?






​​​@Blackvegetable  here is a little history lesson:The idea of the burden of proof is extremely old—well over 2,000 years old.The clearest early formulation comes from Roman law. The Roman jurist Julius Paulus (Paul), around the late 2nd/early 3rd century CE, expressed the principle essentially as:

“Proof lies upon the person who asserts, not upon the person who denies.”

The underlying idea is even older. Greek philosophers and rhetoricians—especially in the traditions surrounding Aristotle, dialectic, rhetoric, and formal argumentation in the 4th century BCE—were already concerned with who had to give reasons for a proposition and what counted as adequate demonstration. But they did not package it quite as neatly as the later Roman legal rule.So a rough timeline is:

• 4th century BCE: Greeks develop systematic ideas about argument, demonstration, assertion, and refutation.
• 2nd–3rd century CE: Roman jurists explicitly formulate something recognizably equivalent to the modern burden of proof.
• Medieval period onward: Roman legal principles are incorporated into European law, theology, scholastic disputation, and philosophy.
• Modern logic/law: The idea becomes more carefully divided into concepts such as the burden of production, burden of persuasion, and the more general argumentative burden to provide evidence for one's claims.

And this connects directly to the “shifting the burden of proof” fallacy we were discussing earlier. That fallacy isn't some new internet-debate rule. It violates a principle of argumentation that has been explicitly recognized for roughly 1,800 years.For example:Person A: “There is a secret civilization under Antarctica.”Person B: “What evidence do you have?”Person A: “Prove there isn't one.”Person A has improperly transferred the burden created by their own assertion to Person B.There's also an interesting connection here to Aristotle and logic: burden of proof is not itself a rule of deductive validity. It's a rule governing the dialectical situation—who owes whom a reason at a particular point in an argument. That distinction gets surprisingly deep.
 

Vegas » 12 Aug 2026, 10:16 am » wrote: ↑

12 Aug 2026, 10:16 am

I told him that the burden of proof lies with the person making the claim. His response/ That is my rule. 

That dumb pos. That moron is too stupid to be alive. How has natural selection not done its job by now?

​​​@Blackvegetable  here is a little history lesson:The idea of the burden of proof is extremely old—well over 2,000 years old.The clearest early formulation comes from Roman law. The Roman jurist Julius Paulus (Paul), around the late 2nd/early 3rd century CE, expressed the principle essentially as:

The underlying idea is even older. Greek philosophers and rhetoricians—especially in the traditions surrounding Aristotle, dialectic, rhetoric, and formal argumentation in the 4th century BCE—were already concerned with who had to give reasons for a proposition and what counted as adequate demonstration. But they did not package it quite as neatly as the later Roman legal rule.So a rough timeline is:

• 4th century BCE: Greeks develop systematic ideas about argument, demonstration, assertion, and refutation.
• 2nd–3rd century CE: Roman jurists explicitly formulate something recognizably equivalent to the modern burden of proof.
• Medieval period onward: Roman legal principles are incorporated into European law, theology, scholastic disputation, and philosophy.
• Modern logic/law: The idea becomes more carefully divided into concepts such as the burden of production, burden of persuasion, and the more general argumentative burden to provide evidence for one's claims.

And this connects directly to the “shifting the burden of proof” fallacy we were discussing earlier. That fallacy isn't some new internet-debate rule. It violates a principle of argumentation that has been explicitly recognized for roughly 1,800 years.For example:Person A: “There is a secret civilization under Antarctica.”Person B: “What evidence do you have?”Person A: “Prove there isn't one.”Person A has improperly transferred the burden created by their own assertion to Person B.There's also an interesting connection here to Aristotle and logic: burden of proof is not itself a rule of deductive validity. It's a rule governing the dialectical situation—who owes whom a reason at a particular point in an argument. That distinction gets surprisingly deep.

His response/ That is my rule. 

prove it.

Blackvegetable » 12 Aug 2026, 10:19 am » wrote: ↑

12 Aug 2026, 10:19 am

prove it.

Prove what?

Vegas » 12 Aug 2026, 10:20 am » wrote: ↑

12 Aug 2026, 10:20 am

Prove what?

That it is my "response", you **** idiot.

Blackvegetable » 12 Aug 2026, 10:23 am » wrote: ↑

12 Aug 2026, 10:23 am

That it is my "response", you **** idiot.

So, you are claiming that you never said it was my rule not even 10 minutes ago? 

Blackvegetable » 12 Aug 2026, 10:23 am » wrote: ↑

12 Aug 2026, 10:23 am

That it is my "response", you **** idiot.

 

He knows it!    

Vegas » 12 Aug 2026, 10:23 am » wrote: ↑

12 Aug 2026, 10:23 am

So, you are claiming that you never said it was my rule not even 10 minutes ago?

No...you're claiming that I did.

Now you want to shift the burden of proof.


Because you are a moron.
 

Huey » 12 Aug 2026, 10:25 am » wrote: ↑

12 Aug 2026, 10:25 am

He knows it!  

Who knows what, exactly?

Blackvegetable » 12 Aug 2026, 10:25 am » wrote: ↑

12 Aug 2026, 10:25 am

No...you're claiming that I did.

Now you want to shift the burden of proof.

Because you are a moron.

I prove you did and you are out of here for a month. 

Deal?

@Cannonpointer  this one is low hanging fruit. But if he accepts, will you mod it? 

Vegas » 12 Aug 2026, 10:27 am » wrote: ↑

12 Aug 2026, 10:27 am

I prove you did and you are out of here for a month. 

Deal?

@Cannonpointer  this one is low hanging fruit. But if he accepts, will you mod it?

What happens when it is clear that you're lying again?

Blackvegetable » 12 Aug 2026, 10:28 am » wrote: ↑

12 Aug 2026, 10:28 am

What happens when it is clear that you're lying again?

Post your stipulations. Stalker. 

Vegas » 12 Aug 2026, 10:29 am » wrote: ↑

12 Aug 2026, 10:29 am

Post your stipulations. Stalker.

Define "stalker".

Your claim.

Blackvegetable » 12 Aug 2026, 10:28 am » wrote: ↑

12 Aug 2026, 10:28 am

What happens when it is clear that you're lying again?

the same, ultra boring ****…play stupid games, post vague stupid ****, ask stupid questions, make stupid demands, rinse, repeat…also known as pantydancing, sidestepping, tying sprint shoes, etc…your vacuous tedium knows no bounds, Mincing Twat…

Blackvegetable » 12 Aug 2026, 10:31 am » wrote: ↑

12 Aug 2026, 10:31 am

Define "stalker".

Your claim.

Vocab is not my claim. Define it yourself. **** your demands.

ROG62 » 12 Aug 2026, 10:32 am » wrote: ↑

12 Aug 2026, 10:32 am

the same, ultra boring ****…

Nothing stops you from starting a thread...
Except the pain of the ridicule which will follow.

Vegas » 12 Aug 2026, 10:32 am » wrote: ↑

12 Aug 2026, 10:32 am

Vocab is not my claim. Define it yourself. **** your demands.

 "providing the evidence that you demand" is "stalking" is your claim.
 

Blackvegetable » 12 Aug 2026, 10:36 am » wrote: ↑

12 Aug 2026, 10:36 am

That "providing the evidence that you demand" is "stalking" is your claim.

Yes. Which I already have. Vocab is your **** problem. There are several words in claims. Am I supposed to define every **** word? 

Vegas » 12 Aug 2026, 10:37 am » wrote: ↑

12 Aug 2026, 10:37 am

Yes. Which I already have. Vocab is your **** problem. 

No...it's your problem.

It is your claim, your rule.

Blackvegetable » 12 Aug 2026, 10:38 am » wrote: ↑

12 Aug 2026, 10:38 am

No...it's your problem.

It is your claim, your rule.

Make a case that vocab 101 is my rule and my job.

 

Vegas » 12 Aug 2026, 10:40 am » wrote: ↑

12 Aug 2026, 10:40 am

Make a case that vocab 101 is my rule and my job.

You claim that "providing the evidence you requested" is "stalking".


Where is that definition?