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Re:Wikipedia editors serving long sentences in Saudi Arabia ... by FreakLegion on Monday January 16, 2023 @11:16PM (#34409056)
> If I autopsy a dead body, am I going to find any evidence of those things in there?

Sure, they're a few centimeters to the right of the evidence of consciousness, just below the evidence of the Pythagorean theorem.

This sounds glib but isn't. What counts as 'evidence' and how much of it is needed for 'proof' are themselves hotly debated. Empiricism is no more a given than morality.

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Re:Wikipedia editors serving long sentences in Saudi Arabia ... by rayiner on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @07:24AM (#34411642)
> Empiricism is no more a given than morality.

And now you’re in woo social studies land. Once you leave the land of empiricism you might as well be arguing about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin.

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Re:Wikipedia editors serving long sentences in Saudi Arabia ... by FreakLegion on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @01:59PM (#34417012)
In woo land with my homies Poincaré, Gödel, etc. It's almost like the bedrock of knowledge is a deep philosophical question that every discipline strikes sooner or later, once they start digging. There really should be a word for it.
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