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"The people who are right are the people whose beliefs haven't led to the undermining and collapse of all mathematics." If this is a criterion for determining
by vba616 4y ago
"The people who are right are the people whose beliefs haven't led to the undermining and collapse of all mathematics."
If this is a criterion for determining who is right, then it implies there is an imaginable alternative. There has to be a counterfactual in order to make a meaningful statement about a fact. If we say "X is blue" then there must be such a thing, at least hypothetically, as a color that is not blue.
But I can't imagine beliefs leading "to the undermining and collapse of all mathematics" much less those beliefs being "right".
(now I looked at the link, and I think I wish whoever this is would focus their venom more squarely at the "placebo effect" which, when explicitly studied or invoked, is an anti-scientific cancer)