Timeline for Asymmetries in two opposite arguments from ignorance
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| Dec 13, 2018 at 19:25 | comment | added | David Thornley | @201044 Not really. If unicorns existed, we assume they'd be mammals, and we know things about how mammals exist and how we'd find evidence of particular sorts of mammals, given a sufficient population for unicorns to continue to exist. If supernatural events existed, well, we don't know much at all about them. We can say "if unicorns existed, we'd probably find X, and that would show they probably exist"" but not "if supernatural events existed, we'd probably find Y, and that would show they probably exist".. | |
| May 31, 2015 at 7:49 | comment | added | 201044 | One could say there is no accepted proof ( outside of religion) that any supernatural or preternatural event has ever occurred therefore such thing don't exist , according to the ' unicorn logic'. Therefore the supernatural or preternatural doesn't exist. Therefore according to this logic all religions are wrong. | |
| May 26, 2015 at 6:57 | comment | added | virmaior | This method is called Bayesian inference. | |
| May 26, 2015 at 6:42 | history | answered | Cheers and hth. - Alf | CC BY-SA 3.0 |