Fiction is not evidence. You can invent examples consistent with anything. They prove nothing, not even that “it could be”.
Aren’t most examples hypothetical?
No? If someone makes a sweeping generalisation, and another challenges them, “Give three examples”, it is pointless for them to respond with imaginary ones.
Fiction is not evidence. You can invent examples consistent with anything. They prove nothing, not even that “it could be”.
No? If someone makes a sweeping generalisation, and another challenges them, “Give three examples”, it is pointless for them to respond with imaginary ones.
And on the subject of trying to deliberately hold a false belief...