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One mistake that (easily) gets made is thinking science is a product, a body of knowledge. Science is a process, that (through repeated application) can take a
by ryebit 9y ago
One mistake that (easily) gets made is thinking science is a product, a body of knowledge. Science is a process, that (through repeated application) can take a body of knowledge, and improve it's depth and accuracy.
You want to get close to "the full truth, and all the truth"? It'll take asymptotically more man-hours.
At any point, there will be gaps and mistakes; but the nice thing about the process of "science" is that it's an algorithm, and exists as part of the body of knowledge it's acting on. So it can itself be improved, using it's own rules.
That's the difference between a process, and a static set of facts, when even it the core tenets permit for the possibility of mistakes, and allow for their own replacement.