On 7/1/2014 9:40 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
But you don't have to prove something doesn't exist to reasonably fail to believe that
it does. I don't have proof that there is no teapot orbiting Jupiter, but that doesn't
make me epitemologically irresponsible to assert I don't believe there is one.
Careful as "I don't believe there is a teapot" is different from "I believe there is no
teapot".
Personally, I don't believe that there is teapot orbiting Jupiter, but why would I
believe that there is no teapot? I have no real evidences for that too. I have only a
speculation extrapolated from my limited knowledge of teapot and Jupiter.
I might *bet* that there is no teapot, but then I can easily conceive losing the bet,
by the usual "bad luck".
How you would bet and at what odds is the real measure of belief. I think you believe
there is no teapot.
Brent
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