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Veteran Member: I Share (not Debate) my POV
Question: IF I use the word "hypothetical" as below, is this seen as a "hypothesis" laying the "burden of proof on me"? (I was told recently on RF)For me I am more interested in what stands to reason moreso than mere fact exchanges.
treat every conversation as a matter of evidence .... does not reveal anything important about how people reason the things they do.
I love conversations about intuitions, and hypotheticals. Speculations can also be interesting.
My fault on RF is that I enjoy hypothetical conversations too much. So I engage in that kind of thing. But oh well!
e.g.: IF I would start an OP with "Hypothetical God is the Bible God", meaning "In this OP I assume God is the Bible God and exclude other descriptions of God, because this is the Christian DIR; and I try to keep it simple". IF it lays "burden of proof on me", how should I word it to achieve what I want w/o having to prove it?
The Scientific Burden of Proof: In the sciences, the burden of proof falls to the one proposing a hypothesis.
It doesn’t matter what the hypothesis is:
Either way, in science the person proposing a hypothesis needs to provide evidence for it by using the scientific method (i.e., making a prediction based on the hypothesis and then seeing whether the prediction is fulfilled when a test is run). Only by doing this can the hypothesis be scientifically established (to the extent that anything can ever be scientifically established).
- If you want to propose that Particle X exists, the burden of proof falls to you.
- If you want to propose that Particle X does not exist, the burden again falls to you.
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