Hi there:

Just presenting rough definitions of proof and evidence of my own creation that could be used to gauge responses to many posts on this board and determine what category such post might fall into. The purpose is simply to understand the nature of a post describing some experience or opinion, be it second hand, third hand, first hand, historical, scientific, or what have you that may or may not posit the existence of a large bipedal primate generally understood to be a BF critter.

Evidence = data, experiential, collected, observed, and whatever else that one individual or more can offer to another to present from his/her/ their point of view that reason does exist to indicate that such data collected, gathered, or observed is true. Such data is might be available only to those directly receiving such data which cannot be made available in its personally-experienced form to another party without contamination of outside factors. Evidence can still be shared among others so that a knowledgeable third party not directly experiencing such phenomena can make a decision pro or con against such. (Whew! That's a tricky part.)

Proof = that data, experiential, collected, and/or observed that is able to be freely disseminated universally to all persons and which no longer can be refuted as being false universally by persons capable of rational thought.

Ain't the best definitions. But a starting point perhaps to understand where posters on the BFF are coming from. From these defs, in my book, everything regarding BF is evidence.

Trouble comes when what is posted is presented as proof, when it's evidence, or more likely evidence is interpreted as proof.

I would just like to hear from which point of view, or from an altogether different one not defined here, that visitors to this board assume. This is not to bring anyone out of some closet. But, simply to understand that people work from their own personal logic, and that prejudgments of such logic tank a thread real quick.

Probably a no-duh topic. I'm hungry now. Later on.

Thanks!

DR

(PS, I can't even understand my own post right now. But here goes. *Click*)