Re:Is There a Limit to Scientific Understanding?
by aalleavitch on Saturday December 09, 2017 @12:24PM
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I'd say it's more accurate to say that science doesn't arrive at objective truths so much as shared truths. It arrives at truths that as many scientists as possible can agree upon. Consensus, after all, is the highest state a scientific theory can aspire to.
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Re:Is There a Limit to Scientific Understanding?
by akvadrako on Saturday December 09, 2017 @01:54PM
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Consensus has nothing to do with science, which can be done by a sole individual completely separate from society. You can follow the scientific method just fine and discover new phenomena and nobody might believe you, but you still did science.
Re:Is There a Limit to Scientific Understanding?
by whatshisface on Saturday December 09, 2017 @02:03PM
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Getting consensus involved in the philosophy of science is usually done as a direct assault on the idealst's question of, "what if this is all just your elaborate hallucination?"
When I'm asked that I just say, "begone, dream-foulers." Then all of the idealists in the universe disppear.