The Difference Between Live and Dead Hypotheses

I think that a lot of the time that we exclude things, we're doing it because they're dead hypotheses to us. So sometimes I don't I think James might be right that we don't have the same standard of sufficient evidence for all of our beliefs. In fact, probably there we have wildly different standards. And one of the differences then is that some of them are live hypotheses. And so we choose to believe them or at least we're open to believing them. But others are not. The reason they're not is not because there's less evidence, but because there's some other reason there's like religious belief for a long time was like that for me. Still is actually