(October 18, 2018 at 10:08 am)Rahn127 Wrote:(October 18, 2018 at 9:48 am)RoadRunner79 Wrote: I'm trying to understand, and make sense of what you are saying. Perhaps the problem is that I don't believe in one set of reasoning for one thing, and another set of reasoning for another (without justification). I don't think that you have provided that, and so your reasoning can be applied (tested) with other things. We can agree to disagree, but I think that you should at least be consistent with your reasoning. When your standards are applied elsewhere, you think it's ridiculous... which I agree. I don't think that your subjective feelings or knowledge makes it any less so, and that you just seem to want to deny the evidence for things that you don't already believe. It doesn't appear to be about the evidence.
What is it do you think I'm denying ?
What evidence are you referring to ?
It appears, that you agree, that testimony is evidence. That a person can share their first hand knowledge of their observations, and that can be used to form a justified belief. Yet you seem to be making another standard (or special pleading), where the same reasoning is not applied, and it is not evidence to be evaluated towards knowing the truth.
It is said that an argument is what convinces reasonable men and a proof is what it takes to convince even an unreasonable man. - Alexander Vilenkin
If I am shown my error, I will be the first to throw my books into the fire. - Martin Luther
If I am shown my error, I will be the first to throw my books into the fire. - Martin Luther
