Re:50 Years Ago, Sugar Industry Quietly Paid Scientists to B...
by ta8645 on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @12:05PM
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> And in my view, it is only of limited importance to look for what possible
That's fine. We have to be pragmatic and can't go around worried about ghosts. But the point is that we have to be honest about the nature of "truth". It is provisional and only our best effort given our relationship with the universe.
And because we must admit that there is no such thing as 100% truth, we should be more humble than going around making pronouncements with such certainty as if we know more than we are actually even able to know.
Science does have some “dependency” on the philosophy of sciences, and while pedantic, simulation is a possibility, but so is “the world popped into existence this morning in a state that we have a collective memory of an imaginary past, and with dinosaur bones in the ground etc”. But this requires much much more presupposition than the scientifically accepted position with the Big Bang et al.
And in my view, it is only of limited importance to look for what possible, but not probable explanations we can make up.