Recently, and for all time, I have come across people who refuse to be logical and sensible when attempting to debate. I keep trying to point out helpful books they could read, people they could talk to, websites they could look at, ANYTHING to help them. But, they never listen. (oohh.the infamous ~THEY~) Anyhow, this is what I consider evidence.
1)A principle or piece of material which seems to follow a general pattern of a hypothesis
2)A logical conclusion draw from empirical investigation. (non-sequiturs need not apply:P)
3)An abstract logical syllogism which supports a premise by showing an rational causal relationship. The inference should obviously be inductive.
4)Personal experience by an individual, which are reproducable to everyone. I.E…putting people under a tanning bed and seeing if their skin darkens (assuming caucasians, or light ‘black’ skinned folk)
These are the things which I consider evidence. Yet, when pointed out that my system, the system of science, is logical, some of the more sheep minded people scoff. I am interested in learning why this is so. I have studied psychology for nearly 12 years, ever since I was a teenager. Nowhere in my studies into behavioural psychology, psychoanalysis, or sociology, did I find the answer to this.
Can anyone in here present a valid argument as to why people simply reject logic, even though they may have no previous bias towards the rational set in question?
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious Carl Jung