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If seeing is believing, an adage most of us agree on, then logically, not seeing is disbelieving.

Therefore, it should follow that if I can't see dark matter, I disbelieve it. Logical or not?

Posted - September 11, 2018

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  • 4631
    I think "seeing is believing" is meant to work as a metaphor equivalent to "the proof of the pudding is in the eating" -
    so, if it can be determined via the senses or other forms of evidence then it can be relied upon.

      September 11, 2018 6:06 PM MDT
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  • 14795
    People often observe optical illusions and they see things that isn't there...
    If you look at yourself in a mirror on a night with no moon and your in your cellar with no light on and your blindfolded ,do you then disbelieve that your not there ..:(
    Am I having another blonde moment again ?  
      September 11, 2018 7:12 PM MDT
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  • 44177
    No you aren't...you got it.
      September 11, 2018 10:06 PM MDT
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  • 14795
    But it's dark and I've dropped it..... it's so tiny and I can't feel for it ,does it really matter if I look for it later with a huge magnifying glass.    I have no proof that it even still down here and I think I might have squished it with my shoe...:( 
      September 12, 2018 1:59 AM MDT
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  • 5391
    ”Seeing” in the sense of the old adage is broader than mere visual stimuli. It encompasses perception at any cognitive level.
    For example: It’s safe to say a very short list of people have actually seen God, yet billions believe in God. Believing is not dependent upon seeing; belief can, and often does, replace physical sight. (And reason also, but that’s another discussion)

    We shouldn’t summarily dismiss a thing simply because we don’t yet understand it (Think of where we’d be as a species if we did). That we have gained a new understanding is the proper use of the adage, no? 

    This post was edited by Don Barzini at September 12, 2018 8:55 AM MDT
      September 11, 2018 7:21 PM MDT
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  • 44177
    I need to ask more of these questions. Great answer.
      September 11, 2018 10:07 PM MDT
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  • 14795
    I feel I see Things when I'm pissed ....could that mean I'm pregnant ? 
      September 12, 2018 2:03 AM MDT
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  • 13071
    Ill see it when I believe it.
      September 11, 2018 11:22 PM MDT
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  • 5808
    Even the most beautiful
    most fantastic
    most valuable treasure we have
    is in stealth mode
    meaning we don't see it...
    but yet it is there 
    within all of life.
      September 12, 2018 8:54 AM MDT
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  • 6098
    Not very logical. 
      September 12, 2018 8:58 AM MDT
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  • 44177
    Thank you. I wrote it that way with a conclusion based on two false premises. Nice job of seeing through my ruse.
      September 12, 2018 12:04 PM MDT
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  • 22891
    i think thats logical
      September 12, 2018 10:37 AM MDT
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  • 7280
    statements, inverses, converses, contrapositives, syllogisms---a trip down memory lane.

    First came up in high school geometry---then in "Logic, for students of science and engineering." 
      September 12, 2018 12:32 PM MDT
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