• Bob@feddit.nl
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    5 months ago

    Try measuring something without believing it exists and see how far you get. Belief is a binary so it’s not like you can neither believe nor disbelieve in the thing you’re measuring. Even besides that, science is very much about belief, because the scientific method implies that every new finding can be falsifiable. The theory of relativity is a very good example of that phenomenon.

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      5 months ago

      Try measuring something without believing it exists and see how far you get.

      Ok.

      :reads his horoscope, takes an IQ test, speaks to a reiki healer, analysis of the fungi shei of his bedroom, using a dowsing rod, and gets his thetan level checked.

      What do I win?

      Belief is a binary so it’s not like you can neither believe nor disbelieve in the thing you’re measuring.

      Assertion please prove this.