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TheConjugalVisit t1_iw5zggp wrote

Reply to comment by contractualist in The "Reasonable Certainty" Standard for Belief (On the problem of other minds, our duties to future people, and believing in the unknown) by contractualist

It's rational to be skeptical.

Well, God and aliens are very different. I certainly think aliens could exist mostly because I believe God the grand creator.

Let's get to this idea of evidence, it's really opinion isn't it? Empirical philosophy would say so.

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contractualist OP t1_iw7h9bg wrote

yet what I argue is there is reasonable and unreasonable skepticism, particularly where evidence is impossible to obtain and one's skepticism isn't subject to falsification. That level of doubt couldn't be justified to others.

And I wouldn't say all evidence is mere opinion, particularly when we act intuitively on where the evidence takes us.

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iiioiia t1_iw81obn wrote

> there is reasonable and unreasonable skepticism

Unfortunately: opinions vary on what is valid skepticism, because reasoning varies and opinion often appears as fact.

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