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If no one has heard it
and no one has seen it then we have to say it does not
exist. So, then, why not go to some village or some
district and inquire? If from antiquity to the present,
and since the beginning of man, there are men who have
seen the bodies of ghosts and spirits and heard their
voices, how can we say that they do not exist?
If none
have heard them and none have seen them, then how can we
say they do? But those who deny the existence of the
spirits say: "Many in the world have heard and seen
something of ghosts and spirits. Since they vary in
testimony, who are to be accepted as really having heard
and seen them?"
Mo Tzu said: As we are to rely on what
many have jointly seen and what many have jointly heard,
the case of Tu Po is to be accepted." (note: King Hsuan (827-783 BC) executed his minister, Tu Po, on
false charges even after being warned that Tu Po's ghost
would seek revenge. Three years later, according to
historical chronicles, Tu Po's ghost shot and killed
Hsuan with a bow and arrow before an assembly of feudal
lords.)
Ghost - Pliny the Younger
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