RE: A question regarding proof
September 7, 2011 at 8:21 pm
(This post was last modified: September 7, 2011 at 8:25 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
What doesn't exist? Dreams, ponies, you? That you may have had a dream about a pony wouldn't be far fetched because we know that all of these things do exist, we have evidence for each. Tying them all together without hard evidence would require trust. That trust would be directly proportionate to the audacity of the claim ( and my judgement of your trustworthiness).
As has already been mentioned, if the claim where "I had a dream about a pony and then it appeared in my room" well, that one would require a bit more evidence.
Again, that any of these things themselves can be shown to exist makes it a less than fantastic claim, but again to be technical, as I've already mentioned, one would have to side with "didn't happen". That's not exactly how human beings operate on a day to day basis with the mundane is it. The sorts of reasoning that we use for personal interaction have been shown to be inadequate with regards to claims of knowledge, specifically scientific knowledge. I hope you don't feel that any of this is earth shattering for anyone involved.
Your claim to absolute certainty is btw much more difficult to substantiate than some like, oh, IDK, materialism.
As has already been mentioned, if the claim where "I had a dream about a pony and then it appeared in my room" well, that one would require a bit more evidence.
Again, that any of these things themselves can be shown to exist makes it a less than fantastic claim, but again to be technical, as I've already mentioned, one would have to side with "didn't happen". That's not exactly how human beings operate on a day to day basis with the mundane is it. The sorts of reasoning that we use for personal interaction have been shown to be inadequate with regards to claims of knowledge, specifically scientific knowledge. I hope you don't feel that any of this is earth shattering for anyone involved.
Your claim to absolute certainty is btw much more difficult to substantiate than some like, oh, IDK, materialism.
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