It felt like irony from my end—a satire of human behaviour.
As a general tendency of humanity we seem to be more inclined to be abhored by beliefs that are similar to what we consider the norm but just slightly different. It is the rebels within the tribe that are the biggest threat, not the tribe that lives 20 kms away.
I hope someone can give you an adequate answer to your question. The very short one is that empirical evidence is usually going to be the most heavily weighted ‘bayesian’ (rational) evidence. However everything else is still evidence, even though it is far weaker.
It felt like irony from my end—a satire of human behaviour.
As a general tendency of humanity we seem to be more inclined to be abhored by beliefs that are similar to what we consider the norm but just slightly different. It is the rebels within the tribe that are the biggest threat, not the tribe that lives 20 kms away.
I hope someone can give you an adequate answer to your question. The very short one is that empirical evidence is usually going to be the most heavily weighted ‘bayesian’ (rational) evidence. However everything else is still evidence, even though it is far weaker.