Reply #35: Tell me you didn't just invoke Lewis' "Liar, lunatic, or Lord" fallacy! [View All]

[Orrex]

You can think we are all either Lying or Nuts, or you can accord it credibility.

Holy moley, that's a fallacy right out of Philosophy 101--the false dichotomy! There's no valid reason to limit the possibilities to those three; you could also be delusional without being "nuts," or you could simply be mistaken.

My claim: Mental telepathy, a form of communication for which science cannot provide a mechanism, has been repeatedly experienced by me and a huge number of other people.

That seems astonishingly unlikely, even if you believe it to be so (see my previous point about being "mistaken"). If telepathy had been demonstrated, there would be evidence for it beyond personal testimony, and there simply isn't. It's not that the evidence is weak; the evidence is nonexistent.

For a phenomenon of this magnitude, personal testimony is insufficient to serve as evidence.