(July 19, 2022 at 11:29 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:(July 19, 2022 at 12:18 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote: If I claim to have tied my shoes this morning, it's reasonable to take my word for it. We know shoes, shoe laces, and people with hands and feet who tie their shoes exist. Absent confounding knowledge (you know I don't have feet, or that I'm a bot, for instance) the claim is mundane, trivial, and inconsequential. I could be lying about it but why? And if I am lying about it, so what?
If I claim to have cooked my oatmeal this morning with superman-like heat vision, that's another matter. It seems contrary to biology, physics, and me being human. You shouldn't take my word for it. In fact, you shouldn't believe me without conclusive evidence. It's not a mundane, trivial, or inconsequential claim. It's an outlandish one and should be treated with a high level of skepticism.
Sure. And you point is well taken. At the same time this is a personal and subject judgement about how much and what kind of warrant is required to justify any given belief.
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