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[–] CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

There’s a whole field of philosophy that’s about how we can’t actually prove anything but the present exists

[–] porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 days ago

I'm sure it's more complicated than that but on the face of it that sounds silly. "Proving" something implies causality, which implies some kind of temporal ordering...