Disclaimer: I’m going to set aside the issue of lying here, and assume you can convince people you are telling the truth, because this seems like a less-interesting gamut. If you want to talk about that, feel free to say so.
If you see something vanish before your eyes, that’s evidence in favor of weird stuff happening, but it’s a lot less convincing to anyone else.
If they believe you are telling the truth, but think it is more likely that you are crazy than that this actually happened, why should you prefer the latter hypothesis? Do you trust your senses more just because they are your own? That doesn’t make sense.
It’s easier for them to assume you misplaced it
Why shouldn’t you assume this if it makes more sense? People forget moving things all the time.
if on average something happens once a week, this can be convincing and frightening to someone who lives there for a year
If it’s really a repeating phenomenon, you should be able to get someone else to come over to your house and witness it at least once. And after a few times of the two of you seeing the same thing at the same time (ideally with some safeguards like writing down what you saw and when before exchanging information to avoid bias), that person can safely demote the “you are crazy” hypothesis.
Why doesn’t it make more sense to trust your own senses than other peoples? You have a LOT more evidence of them being accurate, than you do of anyone else’s. Different brainstates correlate with different actual events with various degrees of reliability, but you’ll always have a better sample size to gather correlational data about your own brainstates as compared to that of someone else.
before you hornswoggle someone into hanging out at your spooky mansion for a few weeks to make sure of seeing something weird, you are in “possession” of evidence(Eg a temporary occurrence that created a certain brainstate such as having thought to have seen something move or appear) that is convincing to you but not to anyone else. Once you actually start witnessing stuff with someone else, that’s further, different evidence.
Disclaimer: I’m going to set aside the issue of lying here, and assume you can convince people you are telling the truth, because this seems like a less-interesting gamut. If you want to talk about that, feel free to say so.
If they believe you are telling the truth, but think it is more likely that you are crazy than that this actually happened, why should you prefer the latter hypothesis? Do you trust your senses more just because they are your own? That doesn’t make sense.
Why shouldn’t you assume this if it makes more sense? People forget moving things all the time.
If it’s really a repeating phenomenon, you should be able to get someone else to come over to your house and witness it at least once. And after a few times of the two of you seeing the same thing at the same time (ideally with some safeguards like writing down what you saw and when before exchanging information to avoid bias), that person can safely demote the “you are crazy” hypothesis.
Why doesn’t it make more sense to trust your own senses than other peoples? You have a LOT more evidence of them being accurate, than you do of anyone else’s. Different brainstates correlate with different actual events with various degrees of reliability, but you’ll always have a better sample size to gather correlational data about your own brainstates as compared to that of someone else.
before you hornswoggle someone into hanging out at your spooky mansion for a few weeks to make sure of seeing something weird, you are in “possession” of evidence(Eg a temporary occurrence that created a certain brainstate such as having thought to have seen something move or appear) that is convincing to you but not to anyone else. Once you actually start witnessing stuff with someone else, that’s further, different evidence.