I intentionally went a bit further than warranted, yes. Just like atheists claim that there is no god, whereas the best one can claim is the agnostic Laplacian position that there is no use for the god hypothesis in the scientific discourse, I don’t really claim that there is no territory, just that we have no hope of proving it is out there, and we don’t really need to use this idea to make progress.
I intentionally went a bit further than warranted, yes. Just like atheists claim that there is no god, whereas the best one can claim is the agnostic Laplacian position that there is no use for the god hypothesis in the scientific discourse, I don’t really claim that there is no territory, just that we have no hope of proving it is out there, and we don’t really need to use this idea to make progress.