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I think what he means is that while yeah, you can have a deep conversation about like epistemology and use dragons as an example of something we can't truly know because the universe is vast, it's also really pretty normal to say "fantasy creatures, like dragons, unicorns, sasquatch"... and it's not presumptuous at all.
Like you know the difference between a dog and Bluey, but you might start to say "okay Bluey could be a real dog, we don't really know" if there were a lot of people around you who adamantly insisted Bluey was real, to the point where they'd very earnestly kill and die for Bluey. But even when you're saying "for all we know Bluey could be a real, upright, blue, Australian canine child, walking around Perth right now", you still kinda know the difference between a dog and Bluey. This subject broadly is also sort of a major trigger point for Reddit style atheists
yeah no kidding, I feel like I'm relapsing. Years ago I had a looong conversation with a friend who had a philosophy background and insisted that "atheist" meant "someone who knows that no god exists" I kept being like "no it just means I don't believe cause I'm not convinced they do!" & brought up leprechauns in a fashion similar to that earlier in the thread.