Talk:Yang Xiao Long/@comment-26838620-20150901052756/@comment-24891101-20150903025802

How the hell am I a hypocrite?

My comment on atheism centered on the lack of belief in a positive claim, and the failure to reject the null in a single instance, not in anythine else.

I believe lots of things. That does not make me a hypocrite.

As to the person in a vegetative state, yes, they are factually alive. Only legally are they not. But their legal decease does not change the fact that they are factually living.

Other definitions are useful, but their use must be specified. Otherwise we default to the best method we have of comprehending the universe.

I don't care about the other viewpoints because they are not epistemologically equipped to determine the objective truth of the matter, or the nearest approximation. When one asks if something is alive, I will assume, unless specified otherwise, that they mean by the biological definition.