20th November 2008, 10:20 AM
Innocent until proven guilty is closer to "it's false until someone truthifies it".
Innocense is basically the "null" claim, the default of the vast majority of people. False is the default state of pretty much all claims that don't have evidence.
Innocense is basically the "null" claim, the default of the vast majority of people. False is the default state of pretty much all claims that don't have evidence.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)