Reversing the burden of proof

This argument is used in the debate : Does God exist?.

This argument is a justification of : Arguments for the existence of God are all argumentative biases.

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Summary

It's up to the person who asserts an existence to provide proof.

Quotes

« You've got it: it's up to the one who claims something to prove it, not up to others to prove that what he claims isn't true. It's not up to the critics of Claude Vorilhon, alias Raël, to prove that he couldn't have been abducted by extraterrestrials, it's up to him to prove that he was. In the same way, it's not up to the critics of a manual technique to show that it's ineffective, it's up to the pretenders to show that it possesses the efficacy they lend it. »

Richard Monvoisin, « Onus probandi, or burden of proof (on the claimant) », Cortecs, July 16, 2015

References

Justifications

How to prove something that doesn't exist

Objections

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