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Re:Study Pinpoints Source of Banned Gas That Saps Ozone Laye... by andrekandre on Thursday May 23, 2019 @04:09PM (#19995418)
> Even the utility is from other historical wisdom, not his own, repackaged into a story. Easily digestable and as rational as any other I have seen.

but that doesn’t necessarily make them true

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Re:Study Pinpoints Source of Banned Gas That Saps Ozone Laye... by reallydude on Friday May 24, 2019 @12:34PM (#20003188)
What does "true" mean in this context? A belief system isn't true in any sense, nor is it practical to have a full knowledge of reality (enough to have rigid axioms about human behavior), so what's the goalpost here?
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