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on Nov 13, 2008
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Loop Quantum Gravity predicts discrete, not contin...
In one of the vids I linked to, he says: "that's called naive realism, reality is how I perceive it. Philosophers have refuted naive realism every generation going back thousands of years, and still people act on the basis of naive realism."
yters
on Nov 14, 2008
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What's the difference between naive realism and this?
"All sentences of the form 'A is B' should be re-written 'A seems B to frame X' (or observer x)."
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