Russell's teapot

Author(s): Art Blos Zemlyanin

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Russell's teapot is an analogy, formulated by philosopher Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) to illustrate that the philosophic burden of proof lies upon a person making empirically unfalsifiable claims, rather than shifting the burden of disproof to others. He wrote that if he were to assert, without offering proof, that a teapot, too small to be seen by telescopes, orbits the Sun somewhere in space between the Earth and Mars, he could not expect anyone to believe him solely because his assertion could not be proven wrong.

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