five-minute hypothesis
nounEtymology
First thought up by and probably coined by Bertrand Russell.
Definitions
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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