(September 4, 2023 at 12:05 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(September 4, 2023 at 10:06 am)FlatAssembler Wrote: That's different. The existence of Croatia is not an extraordinary claim. The existence of iPhones is.
I have an iPhone. I have never seen Croatia. Therefore, the claim ‘Croatia exists’ is extraordinary and requires extraordinary evidence.
Boru
Why would the existence of a place named "Croatia" be an extraordinary claim? The name "Croatia" is not ironic: nobody knows for sure what it means.