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A comment on Carl Sagan's Baloney Detection Kit: Tools for Thinking Critically (2025). Parent comment

Re:Carl Sagan's Baloney Detection Kit: Tools for Thinking Cr... by technothrasher on Thursday February 12, 2026 @10:08AM (#46989770)
> That makes Carl Sagan's claim some what Balonish.

His claim wasn't that invisible dragons don't exist. His claim was that you cannot tell the difference between a dragon that doesn't exist and one that is, to use your qualifier, currently undetectable by any means known to humanity. If you cannot tell the difference between existence and non-existence of something, any claims to its existence are vacuous.

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Re:Carl Sagan's Baloney Detection Kit: Tools for Thinking Cr... by qsera on Thursday February 12, 2026 @08:01PM (#46997587)
Can you really prove that the last second really existed? I don't think so. It is like taking a frame from a movie reel and from that alone trying to prove that the previous frame really exist. You can't, there is always a possibility that it is the very first frame, or is just a photograph.

But does that stop you from claiming its existence (last second's)?

So as I said in another thread. This logic is completely ignoring the sea of subjective experience that we live in.

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