| They all do technically. Inductive reasoning, which relies on observation of patterns, is ultimately probabilistic, making it not fact, but assumption... a matter of faith.
There was a woman once, in a hypothetical universe, on a planet that was exactly like ours -- except that no one could hear. They all had ears, but they either didn't work or people chose not to use them. Everyone was stone def... except one person. This woman, walking down the street could hear cars, and know when to duck away from people, since she could hear them fart. She could sense happiness characterized as laughter even if she couldn't see anyone laughing. All because she could hear.
She told people far and wide what a miracle it was to be able to hear, how much it could open your mind. They all looked at her and said: "You can't prove that you can hear." "Stop making up fantasies in your head. I can't hear and neither can you." "Oh yeah? If you can hear, then what noise is there on the other side of the world?"
And she said, I can tell you what I hear, and she said, but I can hear, and so can you if you just open your mind, and she said I can't hear things that far, that's not how it works.
And the def ones laughed, and wrote her off. |