flyingswan, on 27 October 2009 - 04:47 PM, said:
1) The people meeting up in secret are out to get you
2) The people meeting up in secret have reasons of their own for doing so that have nothing to do with being out to get you
The second is falsifiable if such meetings can be shown to cause you harm. What would falsify the first theory?
Since in neither case will you likely have access to enough information to draw a definate conclusion neither conclusions can be drawn and so the nice safe conclusion that they are just friends is no more likely. You have falsified neither, and you are unlikely to be able to falsify either to a satisfactory end point. You are I believe trying to equate the absense of adequate evidence with proof of absence of a motive. Schrodingers cat is both alive and dead and he will probably stay that way.
You are equating scientific proof with social constructs which are clearly not the same thing at all. The fundamental difference is that those who are meeting are deliberately concealing evidence in order conceal their motive - you will never know what they are planning unless you are within that room with them. Does that mean that they could never conspire against you. This is what you are asking me to accept. The absense of secret meeting without publicly scrutinizable minuites would be the only thing which would satisfy me of their good intentions. I believe this is a reasonable conclusion in the face of concealment.
this is the problem I keep coming back to - in the presence of omnipresnt lies and concealment, what truthful conclusions can reasonably be drawn. We are literally living within a mad society which forces us all to face madness on a daily basis.
Br Cornelius
Br Cornelius
This post has been edited by Br Cornelius: 27 October 2009 - 05:12 PM
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