Re:Dark Matter Doesn't Exist
by Koshkin on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @08:43PM
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Theories, sure, but knowledge is not confined to theories, i.e. isn’t there positive knowledge, a.k.a. “facts”?
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Yes there are facts. I.e. there is a particle called electron, there is a Sun, Cosmic Microwave background, Milky Way galaxy. I'd say those are facts. But I do think the boundary what's a 'fact' vs model/theory dependent statement can be different among different people.
There are theories with super high levels of supporting evidence, so we treat them as true.
This isn't to say that is a bad thing, it is a great thing.
I treat them as true because they are true. I guess there is more than one definition of truth.
But I think what you mean that you treat some theories as axioms (temporarily, I hope). It's a great aid in thinking but a great source of confusion for newbies as well.
There are absolutely multiple definitions of truth. "1 + 1 = 2" is not true in the sense that "Paris is the capital of France" or "Water boils at 100C" are true.
Re:Dark Matter Doesn't Exist
by tsimionescu on Thursday August 11, 2022 @01:12AM
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Outside of mathematics, not really. Special relativity and QM proved that 300 year old "facts" were actually subtly wrong, for example.