> That is what extraordinary means: that it violates our previous experiences, that it is "out of the ordinary". Human beings navigate reality based on previous experience, and most of the time it serves us really well.
Hence, two opposing claims are both necessarily extraordinary when both parts disagree, or when each claim violates the other part experiences.
If your thought example is that only two human beings exist in the world, then yes, both claims are equally extraordinary.
But since the world is not composed of two people, if one person fervently believes that the moon is made out of cheese and the rest of humanity does not, the anti-cheesers are not extraordinary, and the singular cheeser would likely be classified as mentally ill.
Have people who have been factually correct historically been classified as mentally ill, heretics and the like? Yes. But that doesn’t mean you should visit a mental institution to get the “truth” behind the invasion of Ukraine.
> But since the world is not composed of two people, if one person fervently believes that the moon is made out of cheese and the rest of humanity does not, the anti-cheesers are not extraordinary, and the singular cheeser would likely be classified as mentally ill.
> Yes. But that doesn’t mean you should visit a mental institution to get the “truth” behind the invasion of Ukraine.
Good, then if the majority is right we just have to ask what the world thinks about the situation in Ukraine. Currently the large majority of the world disagrees with the western point of view. India is not siding with the west, neither does China, neither does Africa or South America.
Hence, two opposing claims are both necessarily extraordinary when both parts disagree, or when each claim violates the other part experiences.