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Re: Burden of Proof (Re: Atheist Billboard At Lincoln Tunnel Approach) |
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Posted by JayMan on Wed Dec 1 21:31:33 2010, in response to Burden of Proof (Re: Atheist Billboard At Lincoln Tunnel Approach), posted by David Fairthorne on Wed Dec 1 20:21:21 2010. Of course you can prove things outside of mathematics. I can prove that the Earth orbits the Sun. I can prove that (non-salty) water freezes at 32 degrees. I can prove that fire is hot. But, hey, what if we are in the Matrix?Ridiculous, you would say? I would agree, but we cannot completely discount the possibility. Facts have a built-in level of uncertainty with them, and no matter how sure we are of something, we can never be absolutely sure that they are correct. But the more certain a fact is, the greater and greater stretches of the imagination we have to make to conceive that they are false. In science, we accept this level of uncertainty -- which is why we demand proof of something before we accept its reality and not give credence to propositions solely because they have not been disproved (especially if they are unfalsifiable, that is, cannot be in principle disproved -- like God). |
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