Witness Evidence

[RoadRunner79]

I'm pretty sure you should have used 'corroborating' instead of 'collaborating'.

Yes... thank you for the correction!

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But as a basic principle, while we can offer other collaborating evidence, there is no way to demonstrate that what is claimed is true.   I can only relay what I have seen, similar as to I can only relay what I think, or what I feel.

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Either way, what you just admitted is that you don't give a damn about evidence. The only thing important to you is how a truth claim makes you feel.

Not at all.... while I do not think that a feeling is of no value, I am going to question a warm fuzzy feeling given as an explanation (either from myself or others).  I am going to look for other verification for that feeling.  

Perhaps that was not a good comparison for me to make (I wasn't comparing observation/testimony to feelings as evidence).   More that it is not derived from anything else (my comparison is seeming worse and worse now). Our observations are a fundamental truth, from which further truth is derived.