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what, you ain't familiar with the double cylinder experiment?

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 12 points 8 hours ago

Yes please lets have a semantic debate in which no one defines their terms

[–] xylogx@lemmy.world 8 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Science routinely solves problems like this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photo_51

In some sense this is the very heart of science: taking disparate views of the world and drawing likely conclusions that are testable and reproducible.

[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 17 points 14 hours ago
[–] AlfalFaFail@lemmy.ml 25 points 18 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Hupf@feddit.org 1 points 2 hours ago

An Orange Box on the left wall, a blue portal on the right.

[–] supplier@hexbear.net 3 points 12 hours ago

Plato has an allegory that would be right up your alley

[–] tdawg@lemmy.world 10 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

The only thing you know is that you know nothing. Really a pointless conversation unless you wanted to circle jerk on Lemmy. oh wait

[–] VinegarChunks@lemmus.org 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

How we go about living our lives on only partially-available and unreliable information is one of the most practical and important questions of all! Who do we trust? What assumptions should we make?

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 8 points 11 hours ago

It's funny you bring that up, I offer a 6-week course on who to trust and what assumptions you should make!

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