• CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    There’s a whole field of philosophy that’s about how we can’t actually prove anything but the present exists

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      6 hours ago

      I’m sure it’s more complicated than that but on the face of it that sounds silly. “Proving” something implies causality, which implies some kind of temporal ordering…