RE: Conversion
September 28, 2009 at 4:13 am
(This post was last modified: September 28, 2009 at 4:14 am by theVOID.)
(September 28, 2009 at 3:30 am)Arcanus Wrote:(September 28, 2009 at 1:36 am)Rhizomorph13 Wrote: I hate it when people avoid direct questions. Granted, they are usually a stepping stone on the way to exposing the ignorance of the one being questioned. But that is the point, isn't it?
*nods* ... as we're about to expose.
(September 28, 2009 at 1:49 am)theVOID Wrote: I missed your question, for your information. I'm on a very small screen. And I find your question far too generalized, for I do not see any reason to believe that our human use of logic should apply in every situation ...
So then, "No proposition can be held as true unless it can be verifed by empirical observations." Is that it?
No, and i can sum this up in one quote:
"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence"
You need not read any further as the preceding gem from Sagan speaks for it's self, but since you are going to yet again ignore my answer i will say this: If i was going to tell you i ate eggs for breakfast you would not require evidence to hold the claim as truth, you would use logic to determine that the claim is feasible and experience to determine it is likely, if i told you however that i ate them with the queen of england on a yacht in the Bahamas then you would need evidence to hold it as truth because even though it is logically possible, it is not the type of claim that you should accept based on logic alone.
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