Re:Ask HN: How to tell what's true from false or right or wr...
by rthomas6 on Friday August 15, 2014 @07:44PM
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2 kinds of knowledge:
1. The kind that you can use to make testable predictions.
2. The kind that you can't use to make testable predictions.
Kind 1 is easy to verify. Just test the testable prediction. Done. That's really all science is.
Kind 2... people have different opinions on. Some people say that Kind 2 is useless and one should reject all of it. Some other people hold Kind 2 close to their heart and find rich meaning in it. With Kind 2, though, there's no good way to tell what's right.
1. The kind that you can use to make testable predictions.
2. The kind that you can't use to make testable predictions.
Kind 1 is easy to verify. Just test the testable prediction. Done. That's really all science is.
Kind 2... people have different opinions on. Some people say that Kind 2 is useless and one should reject all of it. Some other people hold Kind 2 close to their heart and find rich meaning in it. With Kind 2, though, there's no good way to tell what's right.