There's a place for subjective experience in evidentiary proceedings. The issue is, where is that place?
That place, my friends, is low on the totem pole. To use Wooters's point about pain, does that explain placebo? I might feel better because Mom gave me chicken soup when I had a cold, but did that counteract the cold? Did it reduce the pain?
The subjectivity of testimony is exactly what lends it unreliability.
That place, my friends, is low on the totem pole. To use Wooters's point about pain, does that explain placebo? I might feel better because Mom gave me chicken soup when I had a cold, but did that counteract the cold? Did it reduce the pain?
The subjectivity of testimony is exactly what lends it unreliability.
