RE: The Burden of Proof
August 19, 2011 at 10:40 am
(This post was last modified: August 19, 2011 at 10:43 am by Welsh cake.)
(August 19, 2011 at 3:00 am)padraic Wrote: No human idea is infallible.Must...resist urge...to invoke...liar paradox. X[
(August 19, 2011 at 3:33 am)fr0d0 Wrote: Equally Anti religious claims shoulder the same burden. IOW : STFUNo they don't. Read up on the philosophical burden of proof to appreciate that not all claims are equal; positive and negative ontological claims like for example Loch Ness Monster does exist or Loch Ness Monster does not exist, are asymmetrical. Whoever makes the positive claim has the greater burden of proof because he or she is seeking to add to our 'collective pool' of knowledge, while the refuter, who is merely arguing against the proposition, does not.