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I got in a conversation with Matthew Schroeder and he suggested I make a thread, so here it is.
I still don't get why freezing feats are valid. It's true that nothing IMPLIES they AREN'T valid, but at the same time, nothing implies that it is false that freezing feats involve interdimensional aliens coming in and changing the temperature using some crazy quantum machine in a nanosecond, and then proceeding to teleport into some alternate dimension that we can't see. The reason why we don't accept crazy explanations like this or Last Thursdayism is because they make too many unnecessary assumptions, or in other words, they violate Occam's razor, which says we should make the least assumptions, and not accepting freezing feats the way we do (my position) obviously makes less assumptions.
The only reason I could possibly think of for our interpretation of freezing feats being valid is that you think fiction implies it? If so, could you provide examples? Doesn't need to be directly to an article or anything, I just wanna know some situations (Ex: This verse implies it because x, another verse implies it by y).
I still don't get why freezing feats are valid. It's true that nothing IMPLIES they AREN'T valid, but at the same time, nothing implies that it is false that freezing feats involve interdimensional aliens coming in and changing the temperature using some crazy quantum machine in a nanosecond, and then proceeding to teleport into some alternate dimension that we can't see. The reason why we don't accept crazy explanations like this or Last Thursdayism is because they make too many unnecessary assumptions, or in other words, they violate Occam's razor, which says we should make the least assumptions, and not accepting freezing feats the way we do (my position) obviously makes less assumptions.
The only reason I could possibly think of for our interpretation of freezing feats being valid is that you think fiction implies it? If so, could you provide examples? Doesn't need to be directly to an article or anything, I just wanna know some situations (Ex: This verse implies it because x, another verse implies it by y).