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DirkGently

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7. It seems like a fearful point of view

Reply to MisterP (Reply #6)

Tue Dec 17, 2013, 05:17 PM

Dec 2013

... founded on an unsupportable central conceit that we can know what we don't know, and what is or is not unknown or unknoweable.

The Stossel-flavored libertarians do seem to take up a big hunk of air in this area. In love with de-bunking, which is fine up to a point, but then it becomes this need to deny that anything they can't immediately grasp, as though it might burn them.

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