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by sharemywin 492 days ago
so our "knowledge" is based on perception. I know something happened because I saw it with my own 2 eyes. everything else is less "knowable"
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That seems to be the conspiracists group think, yea.

IRL we invented the field of science to avoid such make belief nonsense.

Instead, we believe that those scientists did provide correct answers. Which is true about 99.9% of time, but not 100%. There is still believing involved, because we can't really check out everything for ourselves, there is no time in one person's life for this.