RE: Is the statement "Claims demand evidence" always true?
January 14, 2017 at 11:55 pm
(This post was last modified: January 14, 2017 at 11:56 pm by Cyberman.)
(January 11, 2017 at 11:51 pm)bennyboy Wrote:(January 11, 2017 at 10:42 pm)Stimbo Wrote: Little things like gravity, ballistics, orbital mechanics, aerodynamics, friction, and other likewise known and repeatable minutiae. Stuff that, so far at least, have demonstrated such reliability that you can trust your life to them, would certainly notice if they suddenly stopped working, and can be modelled mathematically with exquisite precision.
You know, the things that make up your video games.
None of the things you mentioned are dependent on a particular metaphysical reality, so far as you can demonstrate. All you know is that you experience things a certain way, and that you can draw certain patterns.
Except that other people can verify my experiences independently. Unless of course you want to argue that I only perceive them doing it, in which case I can safely ignore you as a figment of my imagination. Though why I would imagine a figment whom I imagine wants to insist that I am only imagining him, I can't imagine.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
