(August 22, 2017 at 5:38 am)LadyForCamus Wrote:(August 21, 2017 at 11:50 pm)RoadRunner79 Wrote: It's not a false dichotomy. The choice is A or !A, which is the law of identity. Now if you mean, that all testimony is not evidence, or not good evidence.
*sigh*
Fine. Can we agree that testimony is not equally sufficient? for all types of claims? How does that sit with you?
I think that it depends on what you mean. I don't think that if I where testify as to what I had for lunch today,it is sufficient at all, as evidence for the moon landing. I think that the sufficiency of any evidence depends on how well it demonstrates the proposition or belief to be valid.
By the way, are you talking about all testimony, or just witness testimony.
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