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Because I can watch you dream and can measure the fact you’re asleep.
by lijok 1y ago
Because I can watch you dream and can measure the fact you’re asleep.
- BugsJustFindMe 1y agoPhilosophers have been worrying about the question of how you can know anything for thousands of years. I promise that your pithy answer here is not it.
- lijok 1y agoA promise wont do it. You’ll have to substantiate it without resorting to argument from authority.
- BugsJustFindMe 1y agoIt's dangerous to go alone! Take this! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistemology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistemology
- lijok 1y agoIf you’re not interested in engaging in a discussion, why bother replying?
- nimbleal 1y agoI don’t think that’s an argument from authority. “Experts have been discussing X without reaching a conclusion for a long time” is a premise from which a reasonable argument can be made for the unlikelihood that an off-hand comment on HN has solved X. Argument from authority doesn't take that form though the two do have invoking authorities in common.