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jaapzyesterday at 10:26 PM1 replyview on HN

Can we? We can only see whatever we can measure with the tools we currently have, which are based on the knowledge we currently have. Who's to say there isn't something out there we haven't discovered yet? There's more than enough we still don't understand in many domains of science


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smallnixyesterday at 11:44 PM

> Who's to say there isn't something out there we haven't discovered yet

Occam's razor? We should work with as few assumptions as possible to get a model with the largest scope. Otherwise we get stuck with a hard to falsify mess.