Want even tinier chips? Use a particle accelerator

Re:Want even tinier chips? Use a particle accelerator by voxic11 on Friday March 21, 2025 @09:35AM (#43435526)

You can always turn a claim into a logically equivalent claim of the non-existence of any counterexamples.

    “For every instance, e equals mc²”

is logically equivalent to

    “There is no instance where e does not equal mc².”

That combined with your belief that claims of non-existence can't be held with any degree of certainty means you believe that no claim can ever be held with any degree of certainty. Which is not a very interesting insight.

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Re:Want even tinier chips? Use a particle accelerator by TwoPhonesOneKid on Friday March 21, 2025 @05:50PM (#43441157)

This is an equally unsupportable claim, though. This requires enumeration of the entire state of the universe, an impossibility. This is just the standard swan problem (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_swan_theory). What you have is a model you're very confident in without the deductively-rational basis your diction implies.

People should really read more hume if they're going to weigh in on philosophy of science.

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