[FRIAM] A longer response to Dave's question

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But the point this misses is that the *tests* change the world. If you only do a test once, then you only change the world a tiny bit. If you do a test an infinity of times, then the world will stabilize to give results to the test. This long-term convergence thing is self-fulfilling.

On 2/20/20 9:01 AM, thompnickson2 at gmail.com wrote:
> So we do the tests, and the  results are yes, no, no, no, no.  The scientists now turn to you and you say, it should, as well as red and liquid, be sour, thin on the tongue, intoxicating in large amounts, produce a dark residue when heated,
> etc..  So, the tests come out yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
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> [...] 
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> Meaningless or false.  It might be meaningless, because there is no possible world in which it could be false.  Or it might be false, because our best guess as scientists is  that in the very long run, in the asymptote of scientific inquiry, our best scientific guess is that the contents of the chalice will be agreed upon to be wine.



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