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Do you believe there's a last prime number? Do you accept Gödel's incompleteness theorems?


Do either of those rest on "defending a conclusion based on made-up facts"? I don't think, say, proofs-by-contradiction are really comparable to the bad-faith "let's say, hypothetically" argumentative style under discussion.




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