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Philologos
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01 Jul 2011, 8:25 pm

And the fact is that the facts we base our theories on sit on what we can only describe as beliefs unless we ignore the facts.



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02 Jul 2011, 10:06 am

Philologos wrote:
And the fact is that the facts we base our theories on sit on what we can only describe as beliefs unless we ignore the facts.


There are only two "beliefs" that stand up by themselves.

1. Contradictions do not exist in the real world. Whatever really does exist does not contradict itself.

2. There is a real world outside our sense and outside our bodies that has its own nature which is independent of what we "believe"

Our refusal to be solopsists is an act of faith. But a reasonable act of faith.

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