Evidence

> //Tell a man there are 300 billion stars in the universe and he’ll believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint on it and he’ll have to touch to be sure.// (Anon.)
 * What constitutes **good evidence** within the different ways of knowing and areas of knowledge?
 * Do sense perception, reason and emotion have the same weight in providing good evidence for claims within the different areas of knowledge? Must evidence always be expressed in words?
 * What could be meant by “A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it” (Tagore)?
 * Which, if either, is the more definitive: facts from books, or facts from databases?
 * Can a fact exist without a context?
 * What does Luigi Pirandello mean by his comment that “My opinion is a view I hold until—well—until I find out something that changes it”?