Uploaded January 2016 | Updated September 2026, 42 minutes ago
Prove to me that this jar of candy doesn't exist!
So explaining "Burden of Proof" type arguments... does it tire you guys and girls out as much as it does me? I've been constantly told that the "Burden of Proof goes both ways" and I have to keep explaining why it really doesn't. Plus more "Appeal to Fear" and "Moving the Goalpost."
Matt Dillahunty recently did an argument about a jar of gum balls:
(paraphrase)
Neither one of us know for certain how many gum balls there are in the jar. You assert there is an even number of gum balls in the jar. I say, "I don't believe you." I am not then asserting, "There is an odd number of gum balls in the jar." I am saying there is not enough information or possible way for us to know.
I thought I would take the gum ball analogy and roll with it.
Prove to me that this jar of candy doesn't exist!
So explaining "Burden of Proof" type arguments... does it tire you guys and girls out as much as it does me? I've been constantly told that the "Burden of Proof goes both ways" and I have to keep explaining why it really doesn't. Plus more "Appeal to Fear" and "Moving the Goalpost."
Matt Dillahunty recently did an argument about a jar of gum balls:
(paraphrase)
Neither one of us know for certain how many gum balls there are in the jar. You assert there is an even number of gum balls in the jar. I say, "I don't believe you." I am not then asserting, "There is an odd number of gum balls in the jar." I am saying there is not enough information or possible way for us to know.
I thought I would take the gum ball analogy and roll with it.
