RE: Is the statement "Claims demand evidence" always true?
December 10, 2016 at 10:03 pm
(This post was last modified: December 10, 2016 at 10:03 pm by Mudhammam.)
(December 10, 2016 at 12:53 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: If your claim is regarding objective reality and you want to convince me of a point about it, then sure, you'll need evidence.Under which category would you place claims that are both abstract and purport to be agent-neutral insofar as they are either true or false in their application to objective reality? I have in mind claims about metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, and even rationality itself.
If your claim is about an abstraction, it is not susceptible to evidence.
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