Your argument about discounting or disregarding first hand testimony reminds
me of the following:
"If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be
what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise,
what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?” Alice’s
Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (1928).
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