> Humans ponder about what happens after they die. Is it anything to do with
> religion? Is it reincarnation? What is the story?
>
> Well fact is that when a human dies that is it. Termination. End of story.
> Nothing.
> This is why no human knows what happens after - because nothing happens
> after. You never hear from any human after they die - simply because they
> do not exist.
>
Until you provide evidence that death is the end of life, it is
undeterminable. Actually all you can do is increase the probability of
the theory that death is the end of life, since you are not entitled
to this thing you call a fact which is probably just a theory.
Once again you appeal to ignorance unless you can provide some
justification for your argument besides the absence of the person.
When people move away to another city and I don't know how to find
out, does that also mean that they are dead?
The argument from ignorance ("appeal to ignorance") or argument by
lack of imagination, is a logical fallacy in which it is claimed that
a premise is true only because it has not been proved false or that a
premise is false only because it has not been proved true.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_ignorance
Famous in the history of science is the (argument _ad_ignorantiam)
given in criticism of Galileo, when he showed leading astronomers of
his time the mountains and valleys on the moon that could be seen
through his telescope. Some scholars of that age, absolutely convinced
that the moon was a perfect sphere, as theology and Aristotelian
science had long taught, argued against Galileo that, although we see
what appear to be mountains and valleys, the moon is in fact a perfect
sphere, because all its apparent irregularities are filled in by an
invisible crystalline substance. And this hypothesis, which saves the
perfection of the heavenly bodies, Galileo could not prove false!
(Copi and Cohen, _Introduction to Logic_, p. 117)
The Perfect Counterfeit Reality
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