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EVIDENCE AND THE BURDEN OF PROOF — How much is simply asserted these days — and how little is ever proven?
Social media is crowded with confident statements offered without anything behind them. Such a statement may be called a bare assertion: a claim advanced on the speaker's say-so alone, with nothing produced that a listener or reader might examine. It can be made by anyone, about anything, in a moment, and at no cost. That cheapness is precisely the difficulty.
A claim that costs nothing to make, and offers nothing to inspect, gives a listener no reason to accept it over its opposite. Volume is not proof, and sincerity is not proof. The remedy is not a louder assertion in return, but evidence: material that can be inspected, weighed, and tested by someone who did not already believe.
📄 The full paper attached. Read it, and you'll never hear an argument the same way again.
Social media is crowded with confident statements offered without anything behind them. Such a statement may be called a bare assertion: a claim advanced on the speaker's say-so alone, with nothing produced that a listener or reader might examine. It can be made by anyone, about anything, in a moment, and at no cost. That cheapness is precisely the difficulty.
A claim that costs nothing to make, and offers nothing to inspect, gives a listener no reason to accept it over its opposite. Volume is not proof, and sincerity is not proof. The remedy is not a louder assertion in return, but evidence: material that can be inspected, weighed, and tested by someone who did not already believe.
📄 The full paper attached. Read it, and you'll never hear an argument the same way again.
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My questions to them are: 1. What evidence is there to show Natural Law exists as anything other than a philosophical ideology? 2. From where do they derive their presumed authority to be to the exclusive educators of ’natural law’ and its alleged purposes?
Answers on a postcard.