(March 17, 2017 at 12:08 am)Jesster Wrote:(March 16, 2017 at 11:55 pm)RoadRunner79 Wrote: I would agree, that an argument is only good as long as it's premises are true and it's logic is valid. However; and I'm assuming you are requiring evidence, that you mean physical evidence, that you will need to give evidence for.
Physical? Unless we're getting too nit-picky with our terms, I would tentatively agree with that being a good place to start. Observable might be a stronger term here, though. I certainly agree with the others here that an argument is not evidence, though. It's a method of arriving at a conclusion based on evidence. I'm not saying arguments are worthless here, of course. They are still quite valuable as long as they have a sturdy foundation that we can all agree on. That's all I ask for when I see these.
Yes, I agree that an arguement or scientific model is only as good as it'a foundation. That does nothing to support the claim, that only emperical evidence is established as said flundation.
