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If you’re completely honest you can’t guarantee with 100% accuracy what you name is. You’re not 100% positive how old you are. But, when someone asks your name or age 99.99+% accuracy is accepted as good enough.

In many ways Science is 'unusually' honest which creates a lot of confusion. Ask everyone on the planet's name and age and you’re likely to find people that make mistakes. But, drop a mere 6 billion marbles and there likely all going to fall.




The problem then is that even the estimation of your accuracy ('99.99+%') becomes baseless if only looked at closely enough.




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