Archie wrote: ↑Fri Feb 20, 2026 6:03 pm
Nessie wrote: ↑Fri Feb 20, 2026 7:33 am
How does disbelief over,
1 - how the cremation pyres were set, prove there were no cremation pyres?
2 - how the gas chambers were vented, prove there were no gas chambers?
3 - how the graves fitted so many corpses, prove there were no mass graves?
4 - how the ovens could cope with so many cremations, prove there were no mass cremations?
Where is your counter-analysis on all of these points?
I have provided it. Those points are arguments from incredulity. Your disbelief and inability to work out how pyres were set etc, to your satisfaction, is not evidence to prove there were no cremations etc.
1 - How much wood do you think is needed to cremate a human body? Do you believe HC's preposterous claim that you can cremate a body with 15 kg of wood?
You cannot counter these points by ranting about "argument from incredulity."
Yes I can. You cannot use your belief that cremations as described are "preposterous" as evidence to prove there were no such cremations. To do so, is to use a logical fallacy.
I have generally stopped posting AI since it doesn't ever settle anything, but just for fun I will share this because it is absolutely spot on here.
Prompt: Evaluate this exchange (not for the specific content but for the quality of argumentation): Person A: The report implies that around 4,000 cremations were performed per day with wood in open air. However, a cremation requires a substantial amount of fuel. Hindu funeral pyres traditionally use 500+ kg of wood. In agricultural contexts where efficiency is paramount, fuel to mass ratio is often 2:1 or 3:1 (and not necessarily for complete cremation). We might posit 150 kg per body as a conservative estimate. But this would be 60 metric tons of wood per day. This would be impossible to gather locally and there is no evidence of a standing order for such a massive delivery wood. That 4,000 bodies per day were being cremated is therefore highly implausible and the figure is likely a gross exaggeration.
You have artificially created a worst case scenario. Hindu pyres are of individual corpses. A better comparison would be the pyres at Dresden and Ohrdruf, that looked like the pyres described at the AR camps. Estimate how much wood was in those pyres, per corpse and it will be far lower than 500+kg, let alone 150kg. You then ignore Poland had huge forests, many wood yards and the AR camps could get deliveries by rail, which is evidenced for wood used for building.
Person B: That's an argument from incredulity. Just because you can't work out where the fuel came from doesn't mean that it couldn't have happened. There are witnesses to the cremations. This proves that they took place and we therefore know that they were technically possible.
Response:
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What Person B does poorly
Misuse of “argument from incredulity”:
An argument from incredulity is roughly: “I can’t imagine how X could be true, therefore X is false.”
Person A does not argue from imagination or personal disbelief; they argue from logistical constraints and quantitative reasoning. Calling this an argument from incredulity is a category error.
I disagree with that. Person A is arguing that because they cannot work out how the pyres were possible, based on what they think the pyres needed for fuel, which is exaggerated and misrepresented, therefore there were no pyres.
https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/personal-incredulity
"Because you found something difficult to understand, or are unaware of how it works, you made out like it's probably not true."
Ask AI if your inability to understand how the mass pyres could have worked, based on some estimations based on individual pyres, is evidence to prove there were no mass pyres.
Failure to engage the substance:
Person B does not address:
the fuel estimates,
the supply-chain problem,
or whether alternative explanations exist.
That has been done, which you ignore. It is telling you ask AI to defend you, as it shows you cannot do it yourself. Instead of using Hindu pyres, tell AI about the mass pyres at Dresden and that they had a layer of wood below the corpses, which would potentially amount to 20kg per corpses. Tell AI about the size of the Polish forests and how wood could be delivered by rail to the camps. Then see what it thinks about your belief the pyres were preposterous.
Labeling a fallacy without engaging the premises is a rhetorical move, not a rebuttal.
Invalid inference from testimony to feasibility:
“There are witnesses… This proves that they took place and we therefore know that they were technically possible.”
This contains multiple problems:
Witness testimony → occurrence does not establish scale, rate, or method.
Even if something occurred, it does not follow that it occurred at the claimed magnitude.
“It happened” does not logically entail “it was technically possible at the claimed scale” without independent support.
Additional fallacies in Person B’s reply
Non sequitur: The conclusion does not follow from the premise.
False dichotomy: Treats “it happened” vs. “it didn’t happen” as exhaustive, ignoring disputes about how much, how often, or how.
Shifting the burden of proof: Person B implies that unless Person A can disprove feasibility, the claim stands—this is not how evidential claims work.
The AI response is about the claimed size of the pyres. It is not claiming pyres are an impossibility, as there is so much evidence they are possible. AI does not get round the evidential flaw of your argument, which is that pyres are evidenced, by multiple eyewitnesses, cremated remains and circumstantial evidence of the disappearance of so many people.
When a physically possible act is proven to have happened, you cannot logically, or evidentially claim it did not happen, because it was not possible. You base your claim it was not possible, on poor witness descriptions, and no details about issues such as wood collection, because of the destruction of evidence. You did not tell AI about that, now, did you!
Overall assessment:
Person B’s response is argumentatively weak. It relies on mislabeling, does not address the core reasoning, and introduces its own logical errors.
You have fed AI with a false comparison by using Hindu individual cremations, rather than Dresden mass cremations pyres and failed to tell it about the ease of getting wood to the AR camps.
Comparative evaluation
Person A is engaging in substantive argumentation: estimating, reasoning, and drawing a cautious (if imperfectly framed) conclusion.
Person B is engaging in deflection: naming a fallacy incorrectly and substituting assertion for analysis.
If this were a debate judged on argument quality alone, Person A’s argument is significantly stronger, even though it is open to critique and refinement. The appropriate response to Person A would be to:
challenge the assumptions,
provide counter‑evidence,
or show alternative logistical mechanisms — not to dismiss the argument with an inaccurate fallacy label.
Substitute Hindu pyres with Dresden pyres and a far lower amount of wood per corpse and add in being able to get wood delivered by rail from the many Polish wood yards. Also, tell AI that all of the workers inside the camps and people who lived near to them, reported months of constant burning and that archaeological surveys have found large areas of buried, cremated remains. I dare you to do that and post the results.