(August 8, 2015 at 3:01 pm)pool Wrote:Personal experiences are commonly called anecdotal evidence or soft evidence. Eyewitnesses in a trial for example may all give slightly different accounts of something that happened but it is meaningful in determining something to be true. Its not verifiable or repeatable but it does not mean it is not valuable in helping to determine something to be true beyond reasonable doubt.Quote:With all respect, but who are you to say what can and cannot be evidence for me?
There is no evidence for you or evidence for me.There is only evidence. (Thank you Simon.)
The sole purpose of evidence being to prove.
I don't think you are equipped to call your personal experiences evidence to believe in what you believe.
Personal experiences are not evidence,they are simply personal experiences.They do not prove anything.
An example of the distinction between personal experience and evidence:
You can throw a rock in a 45 degree angle and experience that they follow a different trajectory than that of a rock that is thrown in a 90 degree angle.But you haven't proven anything to anyone or to you.
In this case,a proof would involve using physics and mathematics and stuffs.Ask Uncle K.
I'm not sure if my example is correct,if it is in fact incorrect,i hope someone else can provide a correct example.
We are not made happy by what we acquire but by what we appreciate.