Comment on Can a reasonable person genuinely believe in ghosts?

MrJameGumb@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• snooggums@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Can you prove there isn’t a teapot in orbit around the moon?

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  • MrJameGumb@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    There might be for all I know!

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    • Ephera@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Their point is that one could come up with a billion hypotheticals for what might theoretically exist, because we cannot disprove it. If we spent as much time humming and hawing whether each one actually does exist as we do for ghosts, souls, gods, Big Foot etc., then you won’t be doing anything else in life.
      That’s why it’s a typical position to just say that they don’t exist until proven otherwise.

      Or in the more general sense, this is Occam’s Razor: If there’s multiple possible explanations for something, then one should assume the simplest explanation until proven otherwise.
      And if you hear a door slamming shut in your house, then wind is a much simpler explanation than ghosts.

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• SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Never imaged

  Never measured

  Never captured

  Never seen by people without mental health issues.

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• FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  yes.

  the utter lack of convincing evidence that ghosts are real is evidence that ghosts are not real.

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  • MrJameGumb@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    An utter lack of evidence thus far

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    • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      gee…it’s only been thousands of years

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    • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      and I’m sure you’re the one who is going to find the evidence.

      it is not as though humanity hasn’t been looking for evidence of the supernatural since… well… probably before hommo sapiens were a thing…

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