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RE: Do You Always Need Cold Hard Evidence?
Thought-provoking post. There are things that I believe subjectively, that perhaps evidence has not caught up to. However, these things which I may believe (because of intuition or deductive reasoning) but do not quite have sufficient evidence for as of yet, I can not expect others to adhere to blindly. I can not deny these beliefs, either.
That is the problem as the argument being proposed my have some substance but with a lack of evidence may not be supported but should it be supported less than sometime with evidence or should both cases be treated equally in the world of philosophy.
Science is based on empirical fact and evidence, and philosophy concerns itself with reason and values. There are some philosophers who use empirical facts as the basis for their reasons, but there are some that do not. I think it's up to the individual to adhere to his own reason, but within the larger context of fact.
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