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Re:On Chomsky and the Two Cultures of Statistical Learning by pygy_ on Friday May 27, 2011 @09:32AM (#2591370)
That anything at all exists has to be accepted as a given.

"God" (in its various versions and revisions around the globe) is just an anthropomorphized version of the previous proposition.

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Re:On Chomsky and the Two Cultures of Statistical Learning by pygy_ on Friday May 27, 2011 @01:51PM (#2592382)
I mean "God" in this context, of course.

People tend to map a lot of other stuff onto it.

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Re:On Chomsky and the Two Cultures of Statistical Learning by ovi256 on Sunday May 29, 2011 @07:05PM (#2597862)
>That anything at all exists has to be accepted as a given.

Boy do I have news for you!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solipsism

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Re:On Chomsky and the Two Cultures of Statistical Learning by pygy_ on Tuesday May 31, 2011 @10:09AM (#2602650)
This view is compatible with solipsism.

Assuming solipsism (however absurd it may be), both me and the universe do exist.

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