(March 23, 2019 at 5:56 am)bennyboy Wrote:(March 22, 2019 at 9:43 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote: I’m not making an assertion, but nice try. I’m saying that I’ll believe another reliable method of knowing things exists when someone shows it to me, lol. It’s what I’ve been asking for, for several years now. No one has ever been able to offer me anything. Just like god.
This statement seems a little peculiar to me, and I'd like you to clarify on it. Is science really the vehicle by which you know what exists? Like, are you suspicious of putting books on a new desk until you confirm the hypothesis that it's a real desk?
The way to confirm that hypothesis would be to put books on what appears to be the desk. If the books remain supported by the desk, we may consider the hypothesis confirmed, or at least supported (get it?).
If, on the other hand, the books fall through what appears to be the desk and land on the floor (or the desk turns into a flock of hummingbirds or the desk begins singing an aria, etc) we can be pretty confident in rejecting the 'This is a desk' hypothesis.
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson