{"id":14498,"date":"2026-09-26T16:48:22","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T23:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/?p=14498"},"modified":"2026-09-26T16:49:49","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T23:49:49","slug":"are-burden-of-proof-considerations-relevant-in-philosophy-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2026\/09\/26\/are-burden-of-proof-considerations-relevant-in-philosophy-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Burden-of-Proof Considerations Relevant in Philosophy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the law, yes; in philosophy, no. Or so I argue <a href=\"https:\/\/williamfvallicella.substack.com\/p\/are-burden-of-proof-considerations?r=f3tzc&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;showWelcomeOnShare=true\">over at<\/a> <em>Substack<\/em>.\u00a0Malcolm Pollack &#8216;incited&#8217; the article with his <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2026\/09\/16\/what-have-we-learned-from-9-11-01\/#comment-18883\">comment<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">I think the burden [the BOP] would be on whoever asserts that my chats with Claude <i>aren\u2019t<\/i> actually conversations, and I think it would be very difficult to demonstrate without begging the very question we\u2019re wrangling over in this thread.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s Saturday night, time to punch the clock, have me a\u00a0 Jack and Coke, and dinner with Mark Levin who, like Trump, is blind to the AI downside.\u00a0 More on that later.<\/p>\n<p>And seeing as how it&#8217;s Saturday night, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lXmsLe8t_gg&amp;list=RDlXmsLe8t_gg&amp;start_radio=1\">who put the BOP<\/a> in the &#8220;bop shoo bop shoo bop&#8221;?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the law, yes; in philosophy, no. Or so I argue over at Substack.\u00a0Malcolm Pollack &#8216;incited&#8217; the article with his comment: I think the burden [the BOP] would be on whoever asserts that my chats with Claude aren\u2019t actually conversations, and I think it would be very difficult to demonstrate without begging the very question &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2026\/09\/26\/are-burden-of-proof-considerations-relevant-in-philosophy-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Are Burden-of-Proof Considerations Relevant in Philosophy?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[451,20,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-burden-of-proof","category-metaphilosophy","category-substack"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14498"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14501,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14498\/revisions\/14501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}