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Originally Posted by zen_tom
Why is that? The layman's version has connotations of being wrong, I'm happy to accept degrees of wrongness.
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The layman's version put's theory on a scale between hypothesis and law, needless to say it's completely wrong.
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Originally Posted by zen_tom
A fact is something that is undeniably true, provable and unshakable. I don't know if there are many facts in the world, or even if there are, in the strictest terms, any at all. Since we are in a Philosophy forum here, usage of the term fact has to be very carefully considered.
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Then the only things that are 'facts' are maths.
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Originally Posted by zen_tom
We have no clue as to what we are, what energy or matter actually is, where it came from, let alone how it got organised into the way it appears to have done, or anything, we are adrift in a sea of the unknown. To think that there is such a thing as a fact is pretty presumptuous don't you think? That viewpoint may be a little extreme perhaps, but it works for me.
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How do you know it works for you? That's the problem, you don't really-in fact, you can't. If we were to accept your view of what constitutes facts then we would find ourselves in the hopeless state of solipsism and no knowledge would be attainable.