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perl4ever
on July 21, 2019
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The Trouble with Many Worlds
If "many-worlds" is unfalsifiable, doesn't that mean "not-many-worlds" is unfalsifiable?
Diggsey
on July 21, 2019
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"not-<anything>" is un-falsifiable. You can't prove that something is true with an experiment (which is what your double negative is suggesting).
perl4ever
on July 22, 2019
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I think you're still saying that X and not-X aren't symmetric. But it seems to me that you can always define not-X as Y, and X as not-Y.
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