RE: Literal and Not Literal
September 3, 2019 at 12:12 am
(This post was last modified: September 3, 2019 at 12:15 am by Silver.)
(September 3, 2019 at 12:05 am)Acrobat Wrote: The point was, your suggestion that you had no burden of proof, is just dishonest.
Incorrect.
I can claim all day and all year round that magical garden gnomes do not exist. It is a fact to which only obtuse apologists cannot accept. If it is understood that something does not exist despite the illogical and frankly overused where is the evidence of non-existence spiel, then the same course of reason can be applied to all things that clearly do not exist.
The burden of proof only ever makes sense for positive claims of existence, for which the individual must then support the argument due to the fact that there is no evidence for existence.