If it is not verifiable it’s not the truth. It might be the truth or not, how can we know?
If you believe in something that is not verifiable then my only advice would be to hold on to that rug.
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Certainly, but my point is not everything is verifiable and we still have to act on the limited information given to us sometimes. If we have to say we don't know unless we've 100% verified something we would never get anywhere with anything. We make our best guess with the information and hope it is as close to the truth as we can get. If we've done our due diligence then it is more likely we are correct.
I'm in the camp that it is pretty much impossible to know the truth about most things. Even our eyes can deceive us, as the light reflected off the objects we see is a tiny fraction of a second out of date once it reaches us. How do I know the object hasn't been obliterated by a nuclear explosion at the very moment I'm looking at it? There's certainly a non-zero chance of that happening, so I can be sure it's truly there when I look at it.
Yes, sorry I misunderstood. Agreed, my problem was with people who would even deny objective reality in the face of it.
But I agree with your position that there are only a few things in this world we could call true and yet we HAVE to assume certain things to be true in order to function (this does create a chance of a rugpull but that’s a chance we have to take).