Showing posts with label skepticism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label skepticism. Show all posts

Sunday, October 10, 2010

The court analogy

Believers sometimes provide argument that their case is similar to the court case in the sense that the skeptic is examining their beliefs (as a set of claims), demanding evidence and providing verdict that belief is correct or is false. In that analogy the defendant, thee believer should have the right to be presumed as "innocent unless proven".