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Originally Posted by freebeard
...of a bell-shaped curve.
'2 extreme possibilities' suggests a multivariant reality is already reduced to a single dimension. Even Plato's cave had a two-dimensional field as a conceptual space.
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It wasn't a good explanation as some things exist within a spectrum rather being an either/or. Flat Earth is a binary fact though; it either is what we would consider to be flat, or it is not.
Imagining something existing within a bell-curve is a necessary reduction of infinite complexity down to something actionable.
Any of our descriptions of the shape of Earth would lack an infinite amount of detail. Still, some descriptions are more correct than others despite the missing infinite amount.