(Answer at the end).
EVIDENCE
By Charles Kocian
“Nuclear weapons issue is a Hoax, just like Russia, Russia, Russia was a Hoax, two Impeachments were a Hoax, the Mueller investigation was a Hoax, and much more. Same sleazy people involved,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. He also echoed some assertions from Republicans in the days following the search that the FBI is biased against him and may have planted evidence in Mar-a-Lago. Planting evidence is possible? Anyway, what is evidence?
Evidence definition is “the available body of facts or information indicating whether a belief or proposition is true or valid”.
The etymology of “evidence” derives from the Latin evidentia, with the verb videre, meaning something that you can see, that is, something that exists and can be perceived.
Galileo’s telescope evidence was not enough for the Pope.
In the Renaissance the Pope refused to look the moons of Jupiter through Galileo’s telescope. It showed the evidence that not everything in the universe revolved around the earth. As we know, Galileo developed Copernicus’s ideas about the solar system.
Also, a good friend of Galileo, Cesare Cremonini, Professor of Aristotelian Philosophy at the University of Padua, looked through the telescope long enough but could not see what Galileo could. If he had accepted Galileo’s telescope evidence, he would have had to refute Aristotle.
Galileo complained the philosophers who opposed his discoveries because they refused to see the evidence that would challenge their world-view.
The death of Socrates.
In ancient Greece, in the year 399 BC, Socrates, 79, was brought before the Athenian court on charges of impiety and corrupting the city’s youth. What evidence was used against him?
The affidavit sworn out by Meletus made two related charges against Socrates: “refusing to acknowledge the gods recognized by Athens and of introducing new and different gods” and also “corrupting the youth.”
Ancient Greek theology was polytheistic with a hierarchy of deities, with Zeus at the top. Socrates in its trial claimed that he was a pious and good man and, therefore, he was not afraid of humans or the gods. His peculiar type of virtue consisted of constant self-examination and no matter what other type of beings may say about him, he knew his intellectual honesty was pure.
The Orphic Egg.
There is no doubt Socrates was a truth seeker but, in those days, the followers of the Orphic Doctrine, an important sect, were champions of purifications against evil spirits. The Orphic Egg was a cosmic symbol myth probably originated in the Bronze Age that symbolized the primeval waters of creation. All those myths of the gods, including Zeus, we know today they were only superstition, a word that means “fear of demons”.
There is no evidence of demons but a lot of evidence of the social damage caused by dishonest intellectuals.
CONCLUSION
To survive man must judge evidence not imagination.
(N0w answer to question 12).
QUESTION N° 12
Sensory perception starts from objects in the physical world and ends in the brain which interprets electrical impulses.
a) True
b) False
The answer is: True.
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