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Maybe the expression "absence of evidence is not evidence of absence," discussed in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_ignorance and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evidence_of_absence.


With the important caveat (described on the Wiki page) that absence of evidence sometimes is (weak) evidence of absence.




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