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This is an analogy, coined by a famous philosopher to illustrate that the philosophic burden of proof lies upon a person making scientifically unjustifiable claims, rather than shifting the burden of disproof to others. In this analogy, the philosopher asks to us to imagine a man claiming that there is a certain object orbiting the sun between Earth and Mars. The object is too small for us to see and since we can’t go into space (this was written in 1950s), there’s no way to show that the object isn’t actually there. The hypothetical man further says that, “since you can’t prove the object isn’t there, you must assume that it is there.” How do we popularly know this analogy?
This is an analogy, coined by a famous philosopher to illustrate that the philosophic burden of proof lies upon a person making scientifically unjustifiable claims, rather than shifting the burden of disproof to others. In this analogy, the philosopher asks to us to imagine a man claiming that there is a certain object orbiting the sun between Earth and Mars. The object is too small for us to see and since we can’t go into space (this was written in 1950s), there’s no way to show that the object isn’t actually there. The hypothetical man further says that, “since you can’t prove the object isn’t there, you must assume that it is there.” How do we popularly know this analogy?
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