(July 27, 2010 at 7:30 am)tackattack Wrote: @EvF,
1- When the evidence isn't completely conclusive but indicative and you can't eliminate every possible bias or variable, yes.
2- Faith that enough biases have been removed to indicate more truth and reliability then falsity.
1. What biases or variables can you eliminate purely by faith? If anything, it is a method for introducing them.
2. You wouldn't need faith for this, as such a thing ( a claim having very little bias) would be demonstrable.
I still don't understand how you've arrived at this conclusion.
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