As V. Nesov said, not having thought about it isn’t important. I have no evidence about plumbers in Chicago, but if I am presented with the question, I can think for a while and assign some probability to the proposition. I assume population of cca. 1 million, out of which former or present plumbers are, say, 1%, from what the age group select another 1%, the name and surname make another factor… so I am almost sure that there isn’t such a man. Affirmatively, if you want.
Another point is that even if I accept that I hadn’t had an affirmative belief about Saul Morgan before you have presented the question, I find the analogy misleading, because practically all atheists have heard about the hypothesis of God.
Of course you can meet a claim and decide to not care about it. But it seems to me that it’s almost always case of very unimportant questions. I can’t imagine a person who wilfully suspends judgement about eternal damnation and torture in hell, meaning of life, basis for morality and all other important subjects traditionally associated with religion. You can quickly conclude that religion is bogus and then go thinking about something else. But to leave the question genuinely open?
As V. Nesov said, not having thought about it isn’t important. I have no evidence about plumbers in Chicago, but if I am presented with the question, I can think for a while and assign some probability to the proposition. I assume population of cca. 1 million, out of which former or present plumbers are, say, 1%, from what the age group select another 1%, the name and surname make another factor… so I am almost sure that there isn’t such a man. Affirmatively, if you want.
Another point is that even if I accept that I hadn’t had an affirmative belief about Saul Morgan before you have presented the question, I find the analogy misleading, because practically all atheists have heard about the hypothesis of God.
Of course you can meet a claim and decide to not care about it. But it seems to me that it’s almost always case of very unimportant questions. I can’t imagine a person who wilfully suspends judgement about eternal damnation and torture in hell, meaning of life, basis for morality and all other important subjects traditionally associated with religion. You can quickly conclude that religion is bogus and then go thinking about something else. But to leave the question genuinely open?