Reply #156: I understand epistemology fine

[lazarus]

That's why I framed the statement: "The statement "there are no clowns in my living room" is easy to disprove, given the understood nature of clowns and my living room."

But if someone says Monkeys can fly and I respond that they don't, which of us has the burden of proof? All the original claimant has to do is produce one monkey that can fly. I would have to either produce every monkey in the universe, and demonstrate their lack of flight, or get into very involved biology and physics and demonstrate that they can't, which probably wouldn't work, given the mindset I'm used to debating. :P