To some degree, I can not answer some of those follow-up questions in a meaningful way, because
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2) certain answers that readily come to me assume certain truths that people call into question. And I can not convince people of those truths.
(…)True. Though, some people do present themselves as though their opinion is the correct one.
…and that probably also includes me.When you use words like “truths” to describe your beliefs, is it difficult not to think that you present your opinion as the correct one.
It’d be a pretty odd belief if that wasn’t the case tho. I mean believing things are true is sort of why we believe in them 😉
Saying “I believe it is true” is not the same as “I know it is true, I’m 100% sure of that, it is a fact and there are evidences”.
But there are evidences. They just aren’t reproducible in a controlled environment. The fact that you dispute the credibility of those evidences doesn’t make them not evidences.
Anecdotal evidences, sure. The thing is, anecdotal evidence is wrong all the time. Someone can be absolutely certain that they saw Neralt Braum murder his wife, but that’s not enough evidence to prosecute. Maybe the witness doesn’t have the best eyesight, or maybe they did see something but misremembered it, maybe they saw Neralt Braum doing something and they filled in the details later when they saw that Neralt Braum was suspected of murdering his wife. Human perception isn’t always accurate, it’s not even usually accurate. Don’t expect others to put any value in your personal experience; because, even though it is technically evidence, it’s the least reliable evidence there is. I’d personally argue that even if we were just looking at anecdotal evidence, evidence like “I saw this,” or “I felt this,” is the least reliable type of anecdotal evidence. Like, if evidence were a scale, it would look like this.
