RE: popular opinion as evidence
April 11, 2014 at 11:48 pm
(This post was last modified: April 11, 2014 at 11:49 pm by tor.)
(April 11, 2014 at 11:46 pm)MindForgedManacle Wrote:(April 11, 2014 at 11:42 pm)tor Wrote: Wrong. The belief is not evidence of the truth of the beliefs. The belief is the evidence that belief come from somewhere(me) and it had a cause(me).
It tells us NOTHING about if there is a wizard or not.
Again, I wish you would read closely. Refer back to my example with the claim "I have a dog", as well as my previous post about how other pieces of evidence alters the probability as well.
Yes, it tells us more about the PROBABILITY of whether or not there's a wizard.
Well I agree that nature of the claim does indeed affect how I should take a look at testimonies. But even if whole world believed that earth is flat I would not take it. It's not how many people believe something it's WHY they believe it that is important.
And no it tells us nothing about wizards.
