How can we tell that something is likely true? How we know stuff A proposition is a type of statement that can be true or false. Not all sentences are propositions. For example, “Some parrots have green feathers” is a proposition, while “Colorless green ideas sleep furiously” is not a proposition. There are essentially three…
Tag: falsifiability
Failure to understand the null hypothesis
This is an issue I see a lot in apologetics and in arguments about theism vs. atheism. Certain theists (who I will just refer to as “theists,” even though I’m not referring to all theists) want to be able to put forward the existence of god as a hypothesis that can be argued for or…
