orthonormal comments on Atheist or Agnostic? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: orthonormal 21 April 2009 01:12:45AM 0 points [-]

Generally, the policy of "presumed resolvable, though perhaps not with current methods" seems to have the best results in such cases.

Comment author: whpearson 22 April 2009 12:02:48AM 0 points [-]

Sorry didn't see this for a while.

For most factual questions this is true, I suspect we might come up against self-referential paradoxes in the discussions about how to gain knowledge about the first cause of our existence.