On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 1:19 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax <a...@lomaxdesign.com>wrote:
> At 12:40 AM 7/17/2011, Joshua Cude wrote: > >> (Remember the skeptics evolution as a phenomenon is proved: >> >> 1. It's not true; 2. It may be true, but not important. 3. It's true and >> important, but we have always known it.) >> >> Here's the believers' progression: >> >> 1. The experiment proves it's true. >> 2. OK. Maybe it's not proved, but the experiment gives good evidence for >> it. >> 3. The experiment provides no evidence that it's true, but no one ever >> said it did. But we still know it's true, because we want it to be. >> > > Step 4 has been left out. > > 4. We told you so! > The great thing about the hypothetical "we told you so", for the believer, is that they can cling to this hope indefinitely. > > Both of these pseudoskeptical [yada, yada, yada]. I have no idea what you said there, but I admit, I didn't try very hard to understand it.
