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ohnhai
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03-08-2005 7:00 AM


In the film ‘Contact’ the character Palmer Joss says I couldn’t with good conscience vote for someone who believes the other 95% of us are deluding themselves
Do numbers of adherents for any one concept prove its truth or validity? If you have 51 one people believing concept X is true and 50 believing it’s wrong does that make X true? And if one person changes their mind so that 51 now believe X is not true does that change the truthfulness of X?
What if 100 believe X to be true and 1 that it is not, what then?
--Not sure of the best froum for this--
This message has been edited by ohnhai, 08 March 2005 12:02 AM

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03-08-2005 11:08 PM


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