(March 15, 2017 at 12:07 am)ma5t3r0fpupp3t5 Wrote:(March 14, 2017 at 7:51 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: Suppose you have 4 explanations about any given phenomena. The first three have some flaw. For the fourth, there is no plausible objection. Does that mean the fourth is true? No. It only means that it is reasonable to believe the fourth it is true as a tentative working theory provided it is coherent and conforms to experience.
By "every single other possible explanation" I don't just mean all explanations we have, but every possible explanation.
It would only be reasonable to believe in 4 if we ruled out all possible explanations, not just all explanations we currently have.
People cannot move forward with their lives if they will only believe things after excluding all possible explanations. Possible explanations are infinite. That goes for pretty much any belief. Do you believe Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth? In doing so, have you excluded all possible explanations of Lincoln's death, like maybe a time-traveling alien doppelganger of Booth? I doubt it.