(April 22, 2018 at 10:53 pm)Jehanne Wrote:(April 22, 2018 at 9:15 pm)RoadRunner79 Wrote: If by improbable, you mean that I have an a priori bias, which leads me to ignore any evidence or reason for such things, then no... I wouldn’t agree.
I do disagree however; with the extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence crap you keep repeating. There is no epistemic reason for such a statement, or to shift the goal posts in such a way.
In case it’s unclear; I wouldn’t say that fire breathing dragons are improbable. I don’t think that would be the correct word, or could lead people to be confused by what I meant. I just stick with I do not have sufficient reason, testimony or other evidence to believe that they exists.
There is probably a reason that I find no one saying that there is.
What's wrong with the belief in the existence of fairies, then? People, after all, have seen them, or so they say? While we're at it, how about alien abductions? Do you believe in those, also? If not, why not?
So then, are you saying that we can just dismiss anything because of this?
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If I am shown my error, I will be the first to throw my books into the fire. - Martin Luther