Re:The Last Mustard Maker in Dijon
by OJFord on Monday January 30, 2023 @08:03AM
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I don't think that's true - imagine for example we'd run out of oxygen, and had needed to manufacture (extract) it somehow on a large scale to support a growing population: we could falsify it by saying 'no, it was necessary to produce more oxygen than was naturally available'. If we can't find any such way to falsify it, then the point stands.
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Your example is not the same. The argument isn’t whether or not producing nitrogen is necessary. The question is whether how we produce nitrogen is necessary or if there is an alternative.
Using your example, it’d be like if we produced oxygen using process X and then saying “process X was necessary to save the species because we would have run out of natural oxygen.” And someone saying “Not necessarily because process X might not be the only way to produce oxygen.”