Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2023-01-15]: In 1906, Francis Galton was at a country fair where attendees had the opportunity to guess the weight of a dead ox. Galton took the guesses of 787 fair-goers and found that the average guess was only one pound off of the correct weight -- even when individual guesses were off base. [1] Ask me. And I will lie to you. Ask the cosmos. And you will listen to the truth. Are you ready to accept the truth? Are you ready to accept you? Ask me. And I will tell you the truth. Only if you know it already…
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