On 14 Oct 2014, at 13:13, David Nyman wrote:
On 14 October 2014 11:49, Bruno Marchal <[email protected]> wrote:
It is not uncommon for "believer" to accept a contradiction to save
their faith, which appears to be of the type *blind*.
Yes indeed. It also puts me in mind of Sherlock Holmes's famous
dictum:
"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however
improbable, must be the truth."
Of course, when we eliminate the impossible, we should get the
possible, which might still not be the truth.
But if we assume *classical* comp, the truth is made of that possible,
and so you do get the truth, but only god knows that (formally this
will only means it is provable in G* \ G (the annulus of
incompleteness) + points-of-view nuances.
Though it may not be quite what the eminent detective had in mind,
it strikes me that many people are driven to espouse highly
improbable positions purely in reaction to something they consider
"impossible".
Fear of the unknown perhaps. People prefer comfortable lies instead of
inconvenient truth. Reality might kick back, soon or later.
Bruno
David
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