• Flying SquidM
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    81 month ago

    Do you? Because you are making arguments he refuted decades ago.

    • @[email protected]
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      -101 month ago

      From your Wikipedia article itself:

      Another philosopher, Alvin Plantinga, states that a falsehood lies at the heart of Russell’s argument. Russell’s argument assumes that there is no evidence against the teapot, but Plantinga disagrees:

      Clearly we have a great deal of evidence against teapotism. For example, as far as we know, the only way a teapot could have gotten into orbit around the sun would be if some country with sufficiently developed space-shot capabilities had shot this pot into orbit. No country with such capabilities is sufficiently frivolous to waste its resources by trying to send a teapot into orbit. Furthermore, if some country had done so, it would have been all over the news; we would certainly have heard about it. But we haven’t. And so on. There is plenty of evidence against teapotism.

      • Flying SquidM
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        51 month ago

        Cool. You read the Wikipedia article. Let me know when you actually read Russell.

        • @[email protected]
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          -111 month ago

          I will note that you are the one making claims without evidence about what Russell wrote and by your own logic, the burden of proof is on you.

          • Flying SquidM
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            51 month ago

            What claims do you imagine I’m making?

            • @[email protected]
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              -101 month ago

              You’re claiming that Russell addressed the claim that there is in fact strong evidence against the teapot.

              • Flying SquidM
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                71 month ago

                And you expect me to what, spend money on an ebook and start pasting from it to prove that an author you clearly haven’t read addressed your point?