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What's more, the scientific field is full of (actual) experts looking at identical evidence, yet coming to different conclusions. That's the nature of inquiry.
by handedness 10y ago
What's more, the scientific field is full of (actual) experts looking at identical evidence, yet coming to different conclusions. That's the nature of inquiry.
The systematic enterprise that we refer to as "science" is inductive in nature far more often than most adherents to scientism tend to realize. Even deductive conclusions are ultimately reached with nearly endless (and often unstated or unrealized) assumptions, and assumptions don't always turn out to be correct.
- simonh 10y agoBut science is about creating and using tests for those assumptions. That's the part of the process that makes it science, as against philosophy.
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