RE: Is Accepting Christian Evidence Special Pleading?
September 17, 2017 at 1:41 am
(This post was last modified: September 17, 2017 at 1:48 am by Mr.wizard.)
(September 16, 2017 at 10:32 pm)SteveII Wrote:Yes it is an assertion of fact, not an actual fact, in order for it to be fact it would need to be verified. So Testimony absent verification cannot be fact, therefore it cannot be evidence, since you defined evidence as "facts that support a conclusion".(September 16, 2017 at 11:26 am)Mr.wizard Wrote: I'm pointing out that you defined evidence as facts that support a conclusion and you just acknowledged that claims of the testimony may not be fact, therefore by your own standards for evidence that you set up testimony would not count as evidence. Then you said in the OP that testimony will be considered evidence for religions, which i'm pretty sure is special pleading.
Testimony is an assertion of fact. If you believe the person you accept the content of the testimony as fact. If you accept someone's testimony as fact, you have evidence to support a conclusion. Notice none of these steps are considered proof.
I said that last statement because some people here think testimony is not evidence in any situation.
If your just going to let people assert their own "facts" without verification, you put yourself in a position in which you can't determine what is actually true. Your actually a walking example of special pleading because you accept these unverified claims of Christianity as fact, but you don't apply that same standard to the claims of the various religions.
