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Old 12-21-2020, 11:32 PM
Yggdrasill Yggdrasill is offline
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Originally Posted by d-ray657 View Post
The logic seems to go: if enough people believe it, it must be true. But just because millions of people don't believe that 153 + 153 equals 306, that doesn't change the certainty of the calculation. The belief that 153 + 153 equals 269 does not provide evidence to change the sum from 306.
To quote Hitchens, "Don't take refuge in the false security of consensus."
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