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Who's your favorite philosopher or religious figure and what is their key thought explained simply?
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Wittgenstein essentially said there is only counter-evidence. You cannot support an explanation; you can only disprove competing explanations. This was famously expressed as a conversation about heliocentrism. His friend said, "To ancient people, it looked like the sun went around the Earth." Wittgenstein replied, "What would it have looked like if it looked like the Earth went around the sun?"