> What if those authorities were wrong? What if they were lying, even? Can we be sure? Can we ever truly know? > Well: yes, we can. The Phantom Time Hypothesis

> What if those authorities were wrong? What if they were lying, even? Can we be sure? Can we ever truly know? > Well: yes, we can. The Phantom Time Hypothesis is nonsense. Hmm. I disagree that we can know. We might hypothesise that this is the case, we might evaluate some evidence to better than other evidence. But "knowing" is hard - we can only know very few things. In my view, we can only say we know those facts in the world that we have personally experienced. The rest is hearsay. If you read something from a book, or even several books, or even a TV program, none of those can confirm the truth of a fact.