I’ve always viewed burden of proof as a dialectical tool. To say one has the burden proof is to say that if they meet the following set of necessary and jointly sufficient conditions:
1. You’ve made a claim 2. You’re attempting to convince another of the claim.
They have the obligation in the discussion to provide justification for the claim. If (1) isn’t the case, then of course you don’t have any burden to provide justification. If (2) isn’t the case (Say, everyone already agrees with the claim or someone just wants your opinion on something) it’s not clear to me you have some obligation to provide justification either.
On this account, it’s not like burden of proof talk favors a side. And I’m not sure it implicitly assumes anything or is a conversation stopper. So maybe we can “keep burden of proof talk” by using this construal while also focusing more on explicit discussion of priors. Idk, just a thought I had while reading this.
I’ve always viewed burden of proof as a dialectical tool. To say one has the burden proof is to say that if they meet the following set of necessary and jointly sufficient conditions:
1. You’ve made a claim
2. You’re attempting to convince another of the claim.
They have the obligation in the discussion to provide justification for the claim. If (1) isn’t the case, then of course you don’t have any burden to provide justification. If (2) isn’t the case (Say, everyone already agrees with the claim or someone just wants your opinion on something) it’s not clear to me you have some obligation to provide justification either.
On this account, it’s not like burden of proof talk favors a side. And I’m not sure it implicitly assumes anything or is a conversation stopper. So maybe we can “keep burden of proof talk” by using this construal while also focusing more on explicit discussion of priors. Idk, just a thought I had while reading this.