#4 by BouldRake » Wed Aug 10, 2016 15:56
But the elephant has disappeared. You can (not) see it for yourself.
Logic doesn't deny this, it just forms your hypothesis of how it disappeared.
Your logic might make you say "It's magic", but saying something doesn't make it so. Your logic may also make you say "it was pirates" or "my glasses are broken", or even "fat git ate it". The only way to verify your logic is with evidence. In this case, you need to test different ways to make an elephant disappear, and after you've tried it, have a look and see if you can still see the elephant. If you can, your logic is wrong.
Only when the logic - your hypothesis - is supported by the evidence are either the logic or the evidence worth anything at all. So, you need both.
And in the particular case of the elephant, of course, he must have had really big hands, and palmed the elephant like the rest of us do with coins.