• LurkingLuddite@piefed.social
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    23 days ago

    That’s not true, though. It’s just a trick. If tricks are all it takes, then most magic tricks are justified and true in their intended implications. At least ones that do not need misdirection to distract from sleight of hand.

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      23 days ago

      Not quite. Tricks are intended to make you believe something that is not true; in OP’s situation, the other people in the meeting believe that OP is sitting in the location that the background picture is taken from. They can’t actually see the background, however; instead they can see the photo of the background. Their assumption is correct, but the fact that they’re looking at a fake background means it COULD be false.

      • LurkingLuddite@piefed.social
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        22 days ago

        The room is misrepresented. If it’s dirty, a clean image isn’t true.

        Just because something could be false does not magically make it true not-knowledge.