I'm a skeptic. I don't believe in God, in chiropractice, in astrology, in Barak Obama, in megavitamins, you name it, I don't believe in it. But consider the following scenario. You are in an English class at college, and your professor gives you the following assignment: Write a story where a person believes something that nobody else does - and yet the person is correct. This might require a lot of imagination, but can it be done? To be more specific, imagine a man walks into a police station to tell them a crime story. The cop at the desk asks him to sum up the story in one sentence. The man says "OK, I'm being drugged by unknown people in my own home.". How would the policeman react? Would he ask for details on this story? Well I tried the experiment, and the policeman immediately phoned my relatives. He locked the door to the police station so that I would stay there until my relatives showed up. In other words, by just uttering one sentence, you can convince people you are insane. And yet like I said - remember the English assignment. If you really had to construct a story where something like this was true - could you do it? And if you could, what does this say about Epistemology?
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