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Old 04-09-2008, 07:57 PM
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Originally Posted by votetheoneyouhatetheleast View Post
Technically nothing can be proved 100% but that's not the point.
Technically, some things can be proven completely: mathematical and logical tautologies. Of course, they don't directly say anything about the world... Every tautology has axioms, or prerequisites, and it is proving these true that is just as impossible as any other claim about the world.

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