RE: Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence
November 9, 2015 at 1:17 am
(This post was last modified: November 9, 2015 at 1:19 am by bennyboy.)
(November 8, 2015 at 11:47 pm)RoadRunner79 Wrote:(November 8, 2015 at 9:34 pm)robvalue Wrote: I assume this is headed for, "Jesus came back to life" or something.
I do have an additional question as well. Do you consider the term "extraordinary" to be used in the same sense in both parts of the claim.
I don't know why you have ignored my pretty simple definitions of "extraordinary": extraordinary claims are those which are outside the common cultural experience of someone listening to them. Extraordinary evidence is the degree of evidence which would be required to convince the lister to alter his world view-- obviously, the farther an idea is from someone's current view of the world, the more evidence he is going to require in order to justify the hard (and maybe unsettling) work of adjusting it.
Not that none of this has to do with whether a claim is correct, or founded on solid logic or science. It is just a description of the process of an idea-spreader trying to influence a potential carrier for his idea.
