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Originally Posted by John Freestone  It is. You're confusing evidence with proof.
Or to put it another way, so what? Every time someone blows their head off with a shotgun and doesn't survive, by your thinking, it's not evidence that you can't survive blowing your head off with a shotgun. |
You're right, I should have said that it's not proof that psychic phenomona does not exist. (I also got the plural vs. single wrong, but you kindly let that slide.)
And changing those "evidence"s to "proof"s, you are right, too, in saying that if a person were to die from blowing their head off with a shotgun, that is not proof that it is impossible to survive blowing their head off with a shotgun. There are very convincing proofs that are good enough for me not to blow my head off with a shotgun, not that I'm tempted, but one person dying of it as proof that it's impossible does not logically follow. That's a
terrible comparison, John!
