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I’m sure that’s a study in psychology about how survey results are significantly better with dog pictures just waiting to be written.
Do we need the paper to know it's true? Seems trivial.
I want billions of funding into this. The Internet needs more dog pictures!
Sorry, I can only fund cat photos
Formally proving trivial things help when proving non trivial things and sometimes the trivial thing turns out to be wrong.
If I needed to cite that fact as a legitimate fact in an academic paper, I would need some evidence that it's true.
To be specific, it's a Moorean fact
What a bad argument for the existence of reality.