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This is not necessarily true. A witness to the actual event is not always needed in order to know what took place. If I walk through a forest and I see a tree that has fallen down I don't have to have a "leap of faith" to know that the tree fell down. I may not immediately know all the reasons behinds its fall, but I can learn about that by examining the fallen tree.


Actually, the fact that apples can and normally do fall from trees at certain times is not proof for a specific event when you claim a certain apple has fallen from a specific tree.

That's basically what religions claim. It's possibility versus reality really. They claim to know which tree and when, but it's quite unreliable when it comes to truth finding and actual history.

In a philosophical sense it might make sense, it has it's limits, but I'm sure you would agree.

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