Can you definitively prove Bill Shakespeare wasn’t a pseudonym? That Marie Antoinette wasn’t a fabrication by French Republicans? Or that Socrates was a real guy?
Dig enough and, for practically all historical figures, you are just taking it on faith that these were real people; that the records we have are not the product of some wildly elaborate fiction. Either you make your peace with that bedrock of ambiguity, or you might as well start watching videos about how the Pyramids were actually where aliens kept their barley reserves.
A simple link to evidence would suffice.
No. My whole point is that it’s a stupid and immaterial argument to have.
Do you have a link to evidence that you exist as a person and not a chatbot?
Can you definitively prove Bill Shakespeare wasn’t a pseudonym? That Marie Antoinette wasn’t a fabrication by French Republicans? Or that Socrates was a real guy?
Dig enough and, for practically all historical figures, you are just taking it on faith that these were real people; that the records we have are not the product of some wildly elaborate fiction. Either you make your peace with that bedrock of ambiguity, or you might as well start watching videos about how the Pyramids were actually where aliens kept their barley reserves.