From: nospam@example.net   
      
   On Wed, 26 Mar 2025, Richmond wrote:   
      
   > D  writes:   
   >   
   >> Yes! You can use the evidence of your senses to know what is real.   
   >   
   > And your senses cannot detect x-rays. So you must refuse x-rays when in   
   > hospital.   
   >   
   > ;]   
      
   No, my statement does not say I have to refuse anything. Yes, I cannot see   
   x-rays, so for me, day to day, they do not exist. However... and this is   
   an important however... the empirical, measurable effects of x-rays, is   
   something I can see or notice, and that is why they are "A-OK" in my book!   
   =)   
      
   To give you another, theoretical example. Let's say we postulate something   
   called XX-rays. We have come to know them through theoretical inference,   
   and they make no effect on the world, we cannot detect them, they don't do   
   anything, they don't cause anything. They cannot, and their effects   
   cannot, be seen or felt in any way.   
      
   Yes! I would one hundred percent, regard them as nonsense when it comes to   
   empirical things in the world.   
      
   Does that make things a bit more clear? =)   
      
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