RE: WLC: "You can't prove the negative"
February 18, 2022 at 2:03 pm
(This post was last modified: February 18, 2022 at 3:44 pm by LadyForCamus.)
Saying “You haven’t provided sufficient evidence or sound reason to convince me your claim is true,” is a perfectly sufficient reason to withhold belief in that claim, at least tentatively. Though the person rejecting the reasoning used to support the claim is still responsible for explaining why the claimant’s reasoning is fallacious, because logic can be objectively assessed and critiqued. In other words, if someone puts forth a cosmological argument, and the respondent says, “nope. That argument is fallacious.” or “the premises are false.” then they haven’t yet done the work of supporting and justifying those counter-claims. And others of us enjoy a more in-depth discourse on the subject of metaphysics, beyond simply, “I’m not convinced, so I’m done thinking about it.” I don’t see anything wrong with that.
Nay_Sayer: “Nothing is impossible if you dream big enough, or in this case, nothing is impossible if you use a barrel of KY Jelly and a miniature horse.”
Wiser words were never spoken.
Wiser words were never spoken.
