If you treat the claim as an axiom, say so explicitly and accept it as metaphysics
If it wasn’t obvious from the subject matter, I’m pretty sure he made clear that he was making a metaphysical/philosophical claim rather than a scientific one with this comment:
You don’t have to like philosophy but then don’t start arguing about it,
If it wasn’t obvious from the subject matter, I’m pretty sure he made clear that he was making a metaphysical/philosophical claim rather than a scientific one with this comment:
Fair enough it’s controversial I’ll give them that.
But so is my goldfish’s belief that the grass is blue and the sky is green.