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		derleth on July 5, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Algernon's Law > epistemologically speaking, we have no basis for ruling it out nor accepting it So we provisionally rule it out, like how I provisionally rule out the possibility I'm the current king of the Royal Kingdom of Thanatopsis.

andreasvc on July 5, 2012 [–]

That's a bit of a straw man. I could expect some kind of evidence for you being a king, whereas a goal behind the universe or evolution is a metaphysical matter. But yeah, we rule it out provisionally.

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