What?
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I think he was indicating his (their) subscription to the school of Realism.
Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to register on their radar that there are other, equally valid, philosophical hypotheses.
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Which is a bit of a fault with Philosophy IMO. I'm all for introspection, and think it can be a good thing at one point. But it seems as long as you state your assumptions, and base it in your logic, you can pretty much say anything.
I think we're in a petri-dish, being experimented on by some other, outer universe race. The big bang was essentially the drop placed into the petri dish. As the "drop" expands, our universe expands. Somewhere high, high above, an intelligent life form is noticing some interesting activity in one part, which is naturally the Milky Way Galaxy.
Cosmology is fun!