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		pygy_ on May 27, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: On Chomsky and the Two Cultures of Statistical Lea... That anything at all exists has to be accepted as a given. "God" (in its various versions and revisions around the globe) is just an anthropomorphized version of the previous proposition.

pygy_ on May 27, 2011 | [–]

I mean "God" in this context, of course.

People tend to map a lot of other stuff onto it.

ovi256 on May 29, 2011 | [–]

>That anything at all exists has to be accepted as a given.

Boy do I have news for you!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solipsism

pygy_ on May 31, 2011 | [–]

This view is compatible with solipsism.

Assuming solipsism (however absurd it may be), both me and the universe do exist.

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