(March 26, 2020 at 7:38 am)Belacqua Wrote: I happen not to believe that aliens crashed at Roswell. The fact that it isn't falsifiable, though, doesn't mean people will certainly lack all reason to believe it.
Well there was supposed to be a crash and physical evidence left behind that was covered up by the "man".
If the evidence for the crash turns out to be wrong and the physical evidence proves to be something else then it would be falsifiable.
Enough unfettered research could falsify the claim is what I'm saying.
(March 26, 2020 at 7:38 am)Belacqua Wrote: There may be mountains of circumstantial evidence -- enough to persuade even a reasonable person. And even if you think that in the Roswell case there isn't enough evidence, there may be in other cases.
Each claim has to be taken on its own merits and investigated if one had sufficient evidence then it would be taken seriously.
(March 26, 2020 at 7:38 am)Belacqua Wrote: Metaphysical statements operate this way, too. The existence of eternal transcendent intelligibles may be unfalsifiable, but millennia of logical argument have persuaded some people. It's not a question for science, but that doesn't mean it's not something you can have a reasonable debate about, and something you may form [tentative] beliefs about.
Arguments are not evidence.
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
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