Life can turn harsh sometimes.
After a lovely meeting with two of my new church’s pastors in which most of my concerns were addressed for church membership (I call that a big high five), I had to put my cat to sleep. Apparently, he stood on the precipice of death and probably only could last two more days at most. Heartbreaking stuff, to say the least.
What is “evidence”? Every epistemologist (epistemology being the study of “how we know”) uses the word with great regularity, yet definitions or specific characteristics are difficult to come across. Evidentialism, that epistemological enterprise based on”evidence”, does not make the enterprise any clearer, using ambiguous terminology such as “quality” to determine the fittingness of evidence. How does one determine the quality of such evidence? By the explanatory power of the evidence? By some ineff able characteristic? Such a question does not have a solid answer, other than placing an “obligatory” status on “good” evidence.
