There's a difference between being unobserved and being unobservable. — Michael
To get a fix on that we can turn to that famous non-idealist philosopher Donald Rumsfeld (I'm deliberately misusing the word 'idealist' here, but why not, it's a Thursday after all):What would you call phenomena that we're not even aware of, so that there's no concept of it, etc.? — Terrapin Station
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