Incredulity

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   @jewce99

   January 24, 2026 at 2:20 am

   Nice to meet you for the first time. Love the background! So keeping in mind this fallacy you spoke about and not falling pray to it, what is your position on the existence of Allah? Given you have the correct understanding of what is meant by Allah.

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   @renardleblanc5556

   January 24, 2026 at 2:20 am

   Okay… argument from incredulity, as a logical fallacy, is more than just a persons attitude. If I say "that sounds fake, pix or it didn't happen," that's me being incredulous. If I say "that's can't be true because it's unimaginable," that's me using my incredulity as an argument against something.
   It's a fallacy because whether or not I find something plausible has no bearing on whether or not it's true.

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   @Commo_Chief

   January 24, 2026 at 2:20 am

   How does incredulity relate to your view on religion?

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   @StephenGA1982

   January 24, 2026 at 2:20 am

   You, sir, are my new favorite YouTuber! Great topics and content. Thanks.

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   @notahandle965

   January 24, 2026 at 2:20 am

   I'm laughing so hard I haven't even finished the video but that camera cheerios thing was so amazing xD

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   @Destructaloid

   January 24, 2026 at 2:20 am

   You should totally do a series explaining basic logic and philosophy concepts in the same tone/flow as your normal videos. You have a wealth of knowledge and a really approachable/relatable/laid back way of explaining things.

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   @sisbrawny

   January 24, 2026 at 2:20 am

   Getting carried away with this thought can lead you nowhere. Imagine going to a psych ward with the "argument of incredulity" on hand. It will blow your mind.

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   @beultra3083

   January 24, 2026 at 2:20 am

   This is the problem with the argument, "Science has not definitively proved how the universe began, therefore God."

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   @GermanEnglishman

   January 24, 2026 at 2:20 am

   Dope!

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    @MaricaAmbrosius

    January 24, 2026 at 2:20 am

    Hume figured we can only imagine things we've experienced in some way.

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    @PELEGMONEYMAN

    January 24, 2026 at 2:20 am

    I kinda lost you bro

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    @NickGreyden

    January 24, 2026 at 2:20 am

    I am loathe to quote Dawkins but… "By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out." It is important to recognize when you encounter something that you are unwilling to accept as opposed to encountering something that is unacceptable by the sane and rational.

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    @leoportier

    January 24, 2026 at 2:20 am

    I appreciate what you said, confessing your own introspection, which makes me want to question my own actions, because I know I have prematurely dismissed others or entered a conversation with my mind already made up. I may not have an intellectual point to make, but I just wanted to say thank you for the video, because I'm going to try to better myself, with this in mind.

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    @FlesHBoX

    January 24, 2026 at 2:20 am

    Oddly enough, I only really have a problem with this when I get to a point of thinking that it is impossible to a person to be as ignorant as evidence suggests.. .mainly when software design is concerned.

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    @VixVixious

    January 24, 2026 at 2:20 am

    Can I subscribe even if I just think your hair is ok?

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    @Tschoo

    January 24, 2026 at 2:20 am

    I think one way to overome this fallacy is by practicing empathy, so you can actually feel what it would be like to be someone else and therefore increasing your ability to imagine other situations than familiar to you. I am personally struggling with this, but I think books are a great way to emphasise with others and being able to escape your own phenomenal world.

    One point that comes to mind is how incredulity is also relative to the culture and time and that at some point people might have been unable to imagine something, while at others they could. Say, you were arguing with someone about the moral issue of slavery in the time of the old greeks. The other might say: What issue?

    Or say vegetarianism:
    A: I can't imagine why you care for some pig.
    B: Because I believe that pigs can feel pain.

    So in this sense I think that empathy, time and incredulity are intimately related to each other, in the sense that empathy increases your ability to relate, time as necessity to develop empathy (individually and as a kind) and incredulity as a failure of empathy and imagination.

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    @koz_n_effect

    January 24, 2026 at 2:20 am

    I think this fallacy is at the heart of people who think trans people are just crossdressers. The way they talk about trans people really makes it seem as though they aren't really able to imagine that trans people could be telling the truth.

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    @Toadeater

    January 24, 2026 at 2:20 am

    If you wanna stretch the bounderies of your imagination. Try LSD or hallucagenic shrooms, then you will start to imagine things you didn't think was possible.

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    @Schuzzlebutt

    January 24, 2026 at 2:20 am

    There's nothing wrong with being skeptical, but some people definitely push that too far. No matter what your gut tells you everyone should always keep looking for answers to complex questions, it's the only way forward for us as a species.

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    @Oxbayer

    January 24, 2026 at 2:20 am

    hey t1j,
    have you ever thought about the possibility of someone being subscribed to your channel just because they like your hair? LOL

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    @WilkineBrutus

    January 24, 2026 at 2:20 am

    the1janitor  Great insight! Our cognitive biases, obviously unbeknownst to many people, create these limitations. Perhaps if we spent more time developing the will to establish more exposure with different topics or different ways of thinking, we'd reduce the amount of incredulity. I've always felt that traveling (physically exploring different cultures) was the mean to help us get closer to knowing ourselves and others; but, unfortunately, we can't deny the ways in which POWER, class, and money may have the potential heighten incredulity.   

    "The problem arises when our incredulity stops us from digging deeper." Awesome point! 

    Aside from power, class, and money, you're right—we should never rely on our own imagination. It obviously limits us. But what about humans who know they're doing it because it benefits them in some way. Are the simply…narcissists? Do we just define them, ignore them, and move along?

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    @incredulouschordate

    January 24, 2026 at 2:20 am

    This has so much to say to me. I just got banned from a Facebook page because I was arguing a point they didn't like. Instead of showing me how I was wrong, they blocked me.

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    @jcole3913

    January 24, 2026 at 2:20 am

    Is that why you're atheist?

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    @youthproblem671

    January 24, 2026 at 2:20 am

    Interesting thoughts. Admittedly I've said that before about asexuality.

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    @CharlieBrown-os6qw

    January 24, 2026 at 2:20 am

    I love this 😀

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    @lepthymo

    January 24, 2026 at 2:20 am

    The logical extreme of this argument is to have no static model of the world in your head whatsoever. Consider any abstraction to be a mere signpost to the actual reality it points to and discard it once you have seen the reality of the situation. No idea is the truth, they just point to it.

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    @rstueckle

    January 24, 2026 at 2:20 am

    This was uploaded literally right as I began taking a dump. It's like you knew.

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