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The Physical World is a Fiction
Peter Lloyd casts a sceptical eye over… well, almost everything, really.
The proposition that appears in the title of this article may seem odd. And the reader will be entitled to demand, “What on Earth do you mean by this? Surely you can’t mean it literally?” Before getting on to this weird proposition, however, I need to prepare some ground. I must try to persuade you that the foundations are sound, before asking you to consider what is built on them. Therefore I shall illustrate the argument that I shall use to support this weird stuff, by applying it in an uncontentious case.
Illustration of the Argument
Consider the curious phenomenon of the Pinkel Triangle1.
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