If you say “There’s a dragon in my garage.” and I say “I don’t believe this.” I am not saying “I believe there is no dragon in your garage.” I’m saying “I don’t have a belief about this.”
Perhaps you are. That’s certainly not what I would be saying if someone said that to me and I gave that reply.
This is why, if you want people to believe something the burden of proof lies on you—you can’t just turn it around and say “Well prove that it’s NOT this way!”
Proof in the sense you are discussing here is mostly useful when trying to win debates. I have no particular desire for you to believe anything in particular.
The second instance is absolutely required to explain the way you reacted to my teleporter with technical failure argument.
The unnecessary entity in the second case is the physically and behaviorally undetectable attribute which only the “real me” has. I don’t see any need for it, and I have no idea why you think it’s necessary to explain any part of my reaction to any of your hypotheticals.
Perhaps you are. That’s certainly not what I would be saying if someone said that to me and I gave that reply.
Proof in the sense you are discussing here is mostly useful when trying to win debates. I have no particular desire for you to believe anything in particular.
The unnecessary entity in the second case is the physically and behaviorally undetectable attribute which only the “real me” has. I don’t see any need for it, and I have no idea why you think it’s necessary to explain any part of my reaction to any of your hypotheticals.