Edinburgh's ghost mystery solved :-)

[Hastur]

It's a female chimp actually
But I am not appealing to ignorance, plenty of people have tried to demonstrate life after death and it failed. Leaving that aside, every time a ghost or some such has been postulated, it's been shown to be a hoax or a case of people misinterpreting perfectly rational happenings.

My apologies.
And you are not really appealing to ignorance, you are taking the parsimonious route; Ian is appealing to ignorance (and authority) with his dribble

 

[Soapy Sam]

I presume these words should be directed at Chimpy too?

Chimpy
No one has yet demonstrated that there is life after death.

Interesting Ian
And certainly no-one has demonstrated that there isn't.

Hastur
Appeal to ignorance. Bad philosopher. No rear parking.

Ian- If there is life after death, proving it should be possible in principle. The fact that very little of the accrued evidence is convincing is the stumbling block for sceptics.

Proving the negative- that there is no life after death, seems to be prima facie impossible.

The two statements are not logically of equal validity.

As I'm sure you are well aware.

If you can think of a way to prove that there is no life after death, I would be very interested to read it.