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How can you be sure of something that you cannot prove?
by totalZero 7y ago
How can you be sure of something that you cannot prove?
- erikpukinskis 7y agoProvable is a tiny subset of true. Much truth is accessible just by looking.
- totalZero 7y ago"Unprovable but true" has often turned out to be "false," if we look to history. This is the reason that scientific epistemology is reliant on empiricism.
- chad_strategic 7y agoI said I couldn't prove it. If I was an investigative journalist and or I had significant amount of time, then I would look into it.
- totalZero 7y ago"...I can't prove it, but I'm sure..." You said you can't prove it AND that you're sure. This is not a good way to think. In the words of Mark Twain, “It’s not what we don’t know that gets us in trouble. It’s what we know for sure that just ain’t so.”
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- chad_strategic 7y agoWell anybody that quotes Mark Twain, wins the battle. But I will politely quote Ben Folds Five: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Y1wm7CFRCQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Y1wm7CFRCQ Some cherry pop music for these crazy times.