Just because a man has died for it, does not make it true.
Oscar Wilde
But isn’t it evidence that this man strongly believed it? And isn’t someone’s strong belief at least a weak evidence for it?
And so we come to “A thing is not necessarily true because there is weak evidence for it” which seems like a fair statement :-)
A nitpick. This is a paraphrase of the original quote which can be found in The Portrait of Mr. W. H., page 29. The original quote is:
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
Just because a man has died for it, does not make it true.
Oscar Wilde
But isn’t it evidence that this man strongly believed it? And isn’t someone’s strong belief at least a weak evidence for it?
And so we come to “A thing is not necessarily true because there is weak evidence for it” which seems like a fair statement :-)
A nitpick. This is a paraphrase of the original quote which can be found in The Portrait of Mr. W. H., page 29. The original quote is: