Talk:Murakumo/@comment-190.27.112.124-20150316205626/@comment-130.245.216.221-20150328031632

"Actually yes, burden of proof falls on the accuser."

That's negative proof, and not how burden of proof works at all. The current argument you are postulating is that "Murakumo is named after Ame no Murakumo and her weapon is a reference to it, because there is no proof to the contrary." By that argument I could say that Murakumo is named after the 1913 Movie Murakumo Ohide or Toyotomi Hideyoshi's cat imaginary Murakumo and then defend it by saying there is no evidence to the contrary.

An assertion does not acquire the presumption of truth until there is evidence to back it up. And the first assertion that Murakumo's namesake and weapon are references to the Ame no Murakumo has not acquired any evidence to deserve the presumption of truth. A week on, not a single person has brought up a single document proving either Murakumo's namesake to be the Ame no Murakumo no Tsurugi or the weapon to be any reference. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, but until evidence is provided, logic dictates that we assume absence.