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sigbottletoday at 2:05 PM0 repliesview on HN

Exactly. Every single philosophical statement in history runs up against the issue where you can just say, "yeah, it's pretty much this. You just need to do <arbitrarily hard unspecified thing that is basically unfalsifiability>". (Including this one)

And maybe that's just our limits with philosophy, modeling, assumptions, whatever. The danger is not realizing when we're in that zone.

(Fwiw I think unfalsifiability is a limit with any system - "you didn't compile in my syntax/semantics" is an gotcha that's actually valid and useful, but nobody can really determine the hard line)