(January 17, 2015 at 2:16 am)robvalue Wrote: Lek: Choosing to believe something you read is true, without justification other than "you can't prove it's not true" is the logical fallacy called an argument from ignorance. You can equally well apply it to any fictional book you like. I could say, "Can you prove these characters don't exist and the events didn't happen?" The honest answer will be no, because proving a negative is usually impossible. So by your reasoning, it's just as valid to believe every work of fiction is in fact true, regardless of whether the author admits this.
I know right? I love that approach, here let me try:
Actually you have to trace life back to Uranus...you see, Uranus is hollow, and full of little purple men who ride unicorns. They feed these unicorns magic beans, so that the unicorns fart fairy dust. This fairy dust is collected and boiled in the great sky cauldron...then bottled in invisible bottle rockets that are catapulted through space to earth...and these bottles shatter upon entering the earth's atmosphere and upon a human's birth, form its soul. Can you disprove this? No? That is because it must be true!
You, not a mythical god, are the author of your book of life, make it one worth reading..and living.
