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4) Why do I think it's literally true? After all, it is an abstraction of reality, and surely fails to capture other facets of the structure of matter. But, I also feel that if we can't accept this as a literal truth, then the very concept "literal truth" has very little meaning for science.
May 14, 2025, 5:22 PM
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