RE: Testimony is Evidence
August 31, 2017 at 11:20 am
(This post was last modified: August 31, 2017 at 11:38 am by The Grand Nudger.)
None of the things you listed were rational, and none of them had anything to do with "testimony alone". They were your rationalizations for belief based upon what you consider sufficient evidence of general cases (and in each example, they were inane). Using the terms "reasons for belief" in a colloquial sense and then shifting into reason as regards a formal system of knowledge is laziness of the -highest- order, and, itself...irrational.
You rattled off a list that shows us your a-rational credulity...at best...which, granted, is how most of us go through most of our lives and respond to most claims. We don;t care enough, for example, whether a person did or didn;t have a cheeseburger - we don;t apply any rational process to that claim -or- ask for evidence. We have no explicit reason to believe them, and whatever implicit reason we may suppose or posit ad hoc has nothing at all to do with the fact that they said a thing. Trying to shore this up to defend the sinking ship of testimony is pointless.
My "intended meaning"...btw, and any investigation thereof. External to my witness testimony. How has it come to pass that the very person who contends that we can or do rely solely on testimony can't seem to bring himself to do so?
You rattled off a list that shows us your a-rational credulity...at best...which, granted, is how most of us go through most of our lives and respond to most claims. We don;t care enough, for example, whether a person did or didn;t have a cheeseburger - we don;t apply any rational process to that claim -or- ask for evidence. We have no explicit reason to believe them, and whatever implicit reason we may suppose or posit ad hoc has nothing at all to do with the fact that they said a thing. Trying to shore this up to defend the sinking ship of testimony is pointless.
My "intended meaning"...btw, and any investigation thereof. External to my witness testimony. How has it come to pass that the very person who contends that we can or do rely solely on testimony can't seem to bring himself to do so?
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