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I'd say it's more accurate to say that science doesn't arrive at objective truths so much as shared truths. It arrives at truths that as many scientists as poss
by aalleavitch 9y ago
I'd say it's more accurate to say that science doesn't arrive at objective truths so much as shared truths. It arrives at truths that as many scientists as possible can agree upon. Consensus, after all, is the highest state a scientific theory can aspire to.
- akvadrako 9y agoConsensus has nothing to do with science, which can be done by a sole individual completely separate from society. You can follow the scientific method just fine and discover new phenomena and nobody might believe you, but you still did science.
- whatshisface 9y agoGetting consensus involved in the philosophy of science is usually done as a direct assault on the idealst's question of, "what if this is all just your elaborate hallucination?" When I'm asked that I just say, "begone, dream-foulers." Then all of the idealists in the universe disppear.