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Andrew F

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@"TheMadFool" I'm not really sure. Some people are inquisitive or skeptical and they imagine possible explanations for the existence of our world.
April 26, 2021 at 08:21
@"TheMadFool" Are you saying something like, "you don't know what you don't know?" Meaning, you can never know how much more knowledge potentially lie...
April 26, 2021 at 07:41
@"Banno" I see. We are operating under different definitions of illusion and reality. I think people use the word illusion in these types of conversat...
April 26, 2021 at 07:30
@"Banno" The point of my questions were to show that I disagree with your premise. Of course, even an illusory truck is real in a sense. When we are t...
April 26, 2021 at 06:45
@"Banno" Why can you not get hit by the illusory truck? Do you think that illusions do not exist, or are you saying that they are not physical or that...
April 26, 2021 at 06:28
The problem with this question is that it is not a matter of which one I would want to get hit by, but which one I do in fact get hit by. I'm not sure...
April 26, 2021 at 05:35
There is a difference between what is and what we can perceive. There are two distinct words, illusion and reality, because there are differences betw...
April 26, 2021 at 04:53
I think you misunderstand the move @"Down The Rabbit Hole" is making. He is using the analogy with the doctor to show the weakness of Ockham's Razor i...
April 21, 2021 at 22:30
@"Down The Rabbit Hole" I don't entirely disagree with you, but I think there is an important distinction that needs to be made when trying to determi...
April 20, 2021 at 22:21
@"Gregory" There are some quirky aspects to Christian theology, I will admit, but I am not sure I see what you are seeing. I will also say that an app...
April 13, 2021 at 19:14
@"Gregory" I see. Thank you for the clarification. I agree. There is definitely a level of probability there. Almost nothing is certain. Interpreting ...
April 13, 2021 at 18:50
Hi @"SteveMinjares". I don't know about pseudocode, but I do know about propositional logic. In propositional logic a statement is valid if and only i...
April 13, 2021 at 18:42
Hi Gregory. I am going to start at the beginning of your thread, although I have read most of it. My main question is about the matter of interpretati...
April 13, 2021 at 18:27