Submitted by CartesianClosedCat t3_y6mqg5 in philosophy
iiioiia t1_iszdamv wrote
Reply to comment by Ok_Meat_8322 in Science Denialism Is a Form of Pseudoscience - Massimo Pigliucci by CartesianClosedCat
Such things don't exist in base nature, they only exist within human culture.
Also, there's more involved than just evidence, there is also the element of trust. If I believe myself to have reason to not trust a person or an organization, it will modify how I consider "the" evidence - the point of the quotation marks being that what is often referred to as "the" evidence is usually only a subset of all evidence, and typically seems to not take into consideration that what evidence exists is a function of what evidence was looked for, or discarded.
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