(January 8, 2015 at 1:36 pm)robvalue Wrote: How else do you determine whether something is true if it's unfalsifiable? What other methods are there, that amount to more than emotion or speculation?What's wrong with emotion? We're emotional creatures you know.
Quote:More importantly, how can you convince someone else of these truths?Why is that necessarily more important?
Quote:I'm not trying to be difficult, I genuinely see no other way. How can you differentiate between two unfalsifiable explanations competing for the same thing? If you have some way of finding which is true, then they are testable. So I'm interested what this testing entails.Suppose I claim that my wife loves me, and you claim that she hates me.
I'll look at all the good things that she does for me and conclude that I'm right. I suppose you could call it the preponderance of available evidence.
However, you could say that she hates me, but is just putting on an act because she needs me for support.
I can't disprove your position. It's clearly unfalsifiable. But I still believe that my method is a reasonable basis for my position. There's no need for me to remain agnostic due to lack of falsifiability.
