RE: Testimony is Evidence
August 23, 2017 at 6:22 pm
(This post was last modified: August 23, 2017 at 6:32 pm by LadyForCamus.)
(August 23, 2017 at 4:45 pm)RoadRunner79 Wrote: Isn't it more your position to separate them out? Also I was talking about general principles concerning testimony. And if you are saying that there are special circumstances which don't follow these principles, then your justification of that is a different topic. Also, I am having enough difficulty talking about what I created the thread for; without being called dishonest and having my motives questioned. I don't think this helps. We had a thread recently on extraordinary claims, and perhaps if you wanted to discuss them, then you should either posted there, or if you would have posted the thread when I invited you to, then you could control what you wanted to talk about.
No. It's yours. It became yours when you said you wanted to discuss the value of witness testimony as evidence, yet you refused to talk about its value as it pertains to extraordinary claims. You have yet to provide a reason for this that makes any sense at all. There is a difference between testifying that I had cheerios for breakfast, and testifying that my dog grew wings and flew to the moon, and for some reason you think example A is relevant to our discussion but example B is not. Why is that?
Quote:Probably depends on what the testimony is.
lol, I told you what the testimony was. Just answer the question. Your distraction tactics are embarrassingly obvious.
Quote:A little less formal, but this thread is about the epistemology of testimony.
That's a fair point on the surface, but again, you're using it as a red herring to avoid answering a pointed hypothetical question directed at you, personally.
Quote: I think that the observation of a gremlin either by myself or others (or something that fits that description) is sufficient evidence that it exists. As to the number... I don't know if there is a absolute value (there are a number of variables), and it depends on the testimony itself, and how good it is. If I seen it, then a couple of other people to confirm what I saw and not hallucinating; I think would be sufficient (because I can rule out lying at least in myself). And if there isn't reason against it, a few more from testimony alone.
FINALLY. I appreciate your honesty. Eye witness testimony is enough to convince RR that gremlins exist. I'm just gonna let that hang there...
Explains a lot.
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