Hitchens'ın usturası

Hitchens'ın usturası, "Delil olmadan iddia edilen şey, delil olmadan reddedilebilir" görüşünü ortaya koyan felsefi usturadır.^[1]^[2]^[3] Ustura ismini de aldığı yazar ve gazeteci Christopher Hitchens (1949-2011) tarafından öne sürülmüştür ve kanıt yükümlülüğünün reddeden tarafın değil iddiayı ortaya koyan kişinin üstlenmesi gerektiğini ima eder; bu yükümlülük iddia eden kişi tarafından karşılanmazsa iddia temelsiz kalır ve reddeden tarafın tartışmaya devam etmesine gerek kalmaz. Hitchens bu ifadeleri özellikle dini argümanları çürütmek için kullanmıştır.^[3]

Kaynakça

^ Ratcliffe, Susan, (Ed.) (2016). Oxford Essential Quotations: Facts. Oxford Reference. 4. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780191826719. 26 Eylül 2019 tarihinde kaynağından arşivlendi. Erişim tarihi: 4 Kasım 2020. What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.
^ Cillian (2016). The Politics of Trauma and Peace-Building: Lessons from Northern Ireland. Abingdon: Routledge. s. 2. ISBN 978-1138775183.
^ ^a ^b Christopher (6 Nisan 2009). God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything. Kindle. Twelve Books. s. 258. And remember, miracles are supposed to occur at the behest of a being who is omnipotent as well as omniscient and omnipresent. One might hope for more magnificent performances than ever seem to occur. The “evidence” for faith, then, seems to leave faith looking even weaker than it would if it stood, alone and unsupported, all by itself. What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence. This is even more true when the “evidence” eventually offered is so shoddy and self-interested.

[1] Ratcliffe, Susan, (Ed.) (2016). Oxford Essential Quotations: Facts. Oxford Reference. 4. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780191826719. 26 Eylül 2019 tarihinde kaynağından arşivlendi. Erişim tarihi: 4 Kasım 2020. What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.

[2] Cillian (2016). The Politics of Trauma and Peace-Building: Lessons from Northern Ireland. Abingdon: Routledge. s. 2. ISBN 978-1138775183.

[Kin-3] Christopher (6 Nisan 2009). God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything. Kindle. Twelve Books. s. 258. And remember, miracles are supposed to occur at the behest of a being who is omnipotent as well as omniscient and omnipresent. One might hope for more magnificent performances than ever seem to occur. The “evidence” for faith, then, seems to leave faith looking even weaker than it would if it stood, alone and unsupported, all by itself. What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence. This is even more true when the “evidence” eventually offered is so shoddy and self-interested.

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