(2023-06-28, 03:03 AM)Ninshub Wrote: I think Ring was making a loose, off-the-cuff philosophizing statement with his Trickster remark, and not a cool, logically precise claim about decades of "controlled studies". It's either bad reading or dishonesty on Augustine's part to make more out of that remark than what it is (especially in throwing mediumship in there).
Again, if you read on in Augustine's paper, he gives numerous references to survival studies and their failure to make a case for survival. That statement was merely an introduction. We should be discussing the documented failure of the studies to support survival, rather than debating the nuance of the wording of one sentence.