RE: Poll: What is your Specific Level of Atheism?
January 7, 2017 at 5:27 am
(This post was last modified: January 7, 2017 at 5:27 am by robvalue.)
I agree.
The only yardstick we have for the unfalsifiable is the number of additional assumptions that have to be made for such a thing to exist. It seems reasonable that the more assumptions that are needed, the less likely the proposition is, in general. Of course some assumptions are more ridiculous than others so they won't all carry equal weight.
But it does need to be coherent and internally consistent before you can even get this far. Often it's not, as you say.
The only yardstick we have for the unfalsifiable is the number of additional assumptions that have to be made for such a thing to exist. It seems reasonable that the more assumptions that are needed, the less likely the proposition is, in general. Of course some assumptions are more ridiculous than others so they won't all carry equal weight.
But it does need to be coherent and internally consistent before you can even get this far. Often it's not, as you say.
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