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> There are lots of things we can't know, but it's like toothpaste; if we posit certain things as fixed, if our observations mean anything, something else has t
by pyrois 12y ago
> There are lots of things we can't know, but it's like toothpaste; if we posit certain things as fixed, if our observations mean anything, something else has to vary.
...how is that like toothpaste?
I don't disagree with what you're saying, but... toothpaste?
- kenbellows 12y agoSeconded. Your analogy is like a banana tree; no matter how many things vary, a horse is not an elephant.
- nilkn 12y agoI have no idea, but maybe... by keeping the tube fixed, we know that it must be the toothpaste which will move?