Devil's proof, there is no way to prove that there was no natural way for the remote to be there. (I may as well state that there is also no way to prove the nonexistence of ghosts, but I'm getting to that.)
Hempel's raven, since most things we see are not ghosts, and the amount of things we can see is incredibly large, it is reasonably safe to assume that ghosts cannot be seen.
Rinse and repeat for hear, smell, taste, feel, and exist. It thus comes down to it that it is reasonably safe to assume that ghosts cannot interact with the world, and that they do not exist. No real problems so far.
Occam's razor, any correct answer is equivalent to all other correct answers, as such the shortest correct answer is the most useful. In this case, shortest will be taken to mean the number of requisite unfounded assumptions. Let us assume that the existence of ghosts is a possible assumption. Thus, the simplest explanation is the one that does not assume the existence of unproven phenomena. That is, with almost certainty, ghosts do not exist, and anything that can be blamed on them can be blamed on something else.
...for the most part, unless you can defeat the initial devil's proof, it is completely unreasonable to claim this incident was done by a ghost. For all we know, tiny kleptomaniacal tweety birds did it. That'd also explain the wobbling. Alternatively, earthquakes.
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Edit: Furthermore, you can't defeat that devil's proof, since it happened in the past (and as such any information about it has almost definitely been wiped away) and you're not perfect (so you could miss anything, including a horde of zombies in the kitchen).
Last edited by suomynona; Sep 25, 2011 at 06:53 PM.