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Re:Is There a Limit to Scientific Understanding? by akvadrako on Saturday December 09, 2017 @01:54PM (#15887333)
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.
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Re:Is There a Limit to Scientific Understanding? by whatshisface on Saturday December 09, 2017 @02:03PM (#15887382)
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.

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