five-minute hypothesis

noun

Etymology

First thought up by and probably coined by Bertrand Russell.

Definitions

  1. The skeptical hypothesis that the world came into existence, with all apparent signs of…

    The skeptical hypothesis that the world came into existence, with all apparent signs of history and the past fully-formed, only five minutes ago.

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