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Originally Posted by blankall
Fact and proof exist only in closed theoretical systems, like mathematics.
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My admittedly limited understanding is that the jury's still out to some extent about whether even math is a closed system, or whether there's any distinction between mathematics and what we observe as reality. To wit: http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/the...st-max-tegmark
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