906. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence

from Stoic Meditations · host Massimo Pigliucci

Quintus, Cicero's brother, relies on other people's testimony to establish the reality of divination. But as his brother, David Hume, and Carl Sagan observed, that sort of evidence is insufficient to establish his extraordinary claim.

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