Time and space travel
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Depends on the font size.
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Google 'grue and bleen'
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Life is like a sewer... what you get out of it depends on what you put into it. - Bob Newhart
Hell is being in a pure platinum asteroid field... with a diamond mining beam
Life is like a sewer... what you get out of it depends on what you put into it. - Bob Newhart
Hell is being in a pure platinum asteroid field... with a diamond mining beam
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An interesting read. But I already knew that not all swans are white.
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It takes a study of inductive reasoning to another level. The swans thing is about falsifiability and is particularly relevant to the scientific method
I hope it helps Nigel clarify his ideas about the difference between imagination and imaginary things and real things that can be thought about. Then he can explain his reasoning about real trees being imaginary when your away from them and hence not existing to me.
I hope it helps Nigel clarify his ideas about the difference between imagination and imaginary things and real things that can be thought about. Then he can explain his reasoning about real trees being imaginary when your away from them and hence not existing to me.
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Life is like a sewer... what you get out of it depends on what you put into it. - Bob Newhart
Hell is being in a pure platinum asteroid field... with a diamond mining beam
Life is like a sewer... what you get out of it depends on what you put into it. - Bob Newhart
Hell is being in a pure platinum asteroid field... with a diamond mining beam
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I think Nigel was more interested in hypothetical situations.