(March 20, 2022 at 6:59 am)The L Wrote: It's just good to just follow the evidence.
Good, maybe. But possible? I'm not sure.
By the time the raw sense data gets to the point where it's considered "evidence," it has been interpreted in the light of theory. It has been selected, abstracted from pure sense experience, and given a meaning.
On certain topics, in certain issues, to pretend that none of that has happened, and that something called "evidence" leaves you no choice but to follow it is very likely to be begging the question, or pre-determining that you'll get exactly the kind of answer that you wanted to get.
In some cases, this would amount to a bad-faith denial of the fact that you are responsible for your conclusions, simply by denying what goes into creating the so-called evidence.
