Re:Strangeness of Black Holes
by whatshisface on Friday January 18, 2019 @03:16PM
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>If your argument was extended from 'ancient philosophy' to 'anything ever said by humans', then anything ever said by humans would fill the sentence space fairly uniformly, so finding out that anyone has said anything doesn't help.
That's accurate, though. If I told you a statement and backed it up with the claim that "at some point in history, a human said it" then you really haven't learned very much. Likewise, if a statement is tagged with "and by the way, an ancient philosopher believed it," you may have learned something about history, but the statement itself hasn't gotten any more believable.
That's accurate, though. If I told you a statement and backed it up with the claim that "at some point in history, a human said it" then you really haven't learned very much. Likewise, if a statement is tagged with "and by the way, an ancient philosopher believed it," you may have learned something about history, but the statement itself hasn't gotten any more believable.