five-minute hypothesis

English

Etymology

First thought up by and probably coined by Bertrand Russell.

Noun

five-minute hypothesis (uncountable)

  1. 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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