Truth and Evidence

It’s interesting (at least to me) how different systems or professions address the issue of truth. How do we know if an assertion is true?

• Anecdotal: True if there’s some comment about it somewhere
• Arabic: If no one saw it, it didn’t happen
• Cruentation: The victim’s body will bleed in the presence of the murderer
• Islam: Two male Muslim witnesses are needed, except for adultery, when four eyewitnesses are required.
• Journalism: True if two independent sources say the same thing
• Journalism 2: Any sound reverberating in the MSM’s echo chamber
• Kavanaugh: Any assertion must be corroborated by more than one witness
• Law: Whatever 12 strangers agree on after being presented with partial information at a performance
• Literary Criticism: Whatever you can publish with a lot of footnotes.
• Medicine: Any treatment based on any kind of evidence (this is actually a step up from the previous standard, set forth below)
• Ordeal: God will perform a miracle to save the accused if innocent
• Religion: If you believe it or were told to believe it
• Science: Whatever a paid journal publishes on the advice of two or more reviewers, until superseded by another article published and reviewed by two other reviewers.
  • Witchcraft: Whatever works even if it didn’t work before
• Zerolis: Greenland may not exist, I haven’t been there.

What can be added to this list?