Ask a Traditional Catholic

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A belief (not a claim of knowledge) that something does not exist is more than adequately backed up by the complete and total absence of evidence for both the thing itself, and the evidence it would logically leave everywhere if it did exist and acted as described.

If my friend tells me he has a wife but I'm never ever allowed to see the wife in their house, she never visits me, I don't see her in any of the shops I'm told she frequently goes into, no one else I talk to has seen her either and the scent of her favourite extremely potent unmistakable perfume has been present absolutely nowhere: I would believe such a person in fact does not exist. I don't need to claim it as a fact. Absolute certainty is a red herring. We each decide how much to investigate each claim before deciding it is of no importance to us anymore.