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Re:Why Most Published Research Findings Are False by DrNosferatu on Wednesday September 25, 2024 @02:36AM (#41644330)
But what is “truth”?
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Re:Why Most Published Research Findings Are False by nolist_policy on Wednesday September 25, 2024 @04:29AM (#41645120)
Useful models that allow us to make predictions.
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Re:Why Most Published Research Findings Are False by guardian5x on Wednesday September 25, 2024 @07:48AM (#41646257)
The models are just an approximation to the truth. The truth is objective reality itself.
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Re:Why Most Published Research Findings Are False by pixl97 on Wednesday September 25, 2024 @11:45AM (#41648673)
Objective reality doesn't allow us to make predictions itself, it is an nonce. Unfortunately we don't have a time reversing machine to run entropy in reverse and see the thermodynamic truth. All we have is models, your consciousness being one of them.
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Re:Why Most Published Research Findings Are False by karatinversion on Wednesday September 25, 2024 @05:53AM (#41645559)
To say of that which is, that is is, or of that which is not, that it is not
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Re:Why Most Published Research Findings Are False by verisimi on Wednesday September 25, 2024 @06:14AM (#41645686)
Indeed. There is no independent arbitor. One can imagine that the collective, consensus answer is best, or not. If it is possible to steer that answer towards something that is beneficial to someone somewhere - why wouldn't vested interests do that?
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