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Science has political problems and social problems yes. But many people don’t understand that from a purely logical perspective there is a fundamental flaw with
by neonological 6y ago
Science has political problems and social problems yes. But many people don’t understand that from a purely logical perspective there is a fundamental flaw with science. Almost no one knows this.
You cannot prove anything to be true with science. Therefore, in other words, you cannot prove anything to be true in reality as we know it.
Even when your observations are 100% accurate it is fundamentally impossible to prove anything in science (and your observations can never be 100% accurate).
If you understand this concept then you fundamentally understand science and you’ll be able to see where all the debate and misunderstandings about science comes from. Every single claim made by a scientist has never ever actually been proven ever. The key is that you need to understand why science can’t prove anything. There is an extremely logical explanation for why proof is impossible in reality. Proof is the domain of logic, not science.
To quote Einstein:
“No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.”
Additionally there are two main axiomatic assumptions about the physical world that has to be made that have to be made in order for science to work as a logical consequence. You must assume logic is true (which is recursive and obvious) but you also must assume probability is true. Probability applying to the real world does not arise as a theoretical consequence of axiomatic logic being true. Probability itself must be assumed to be an axiom alongside logic, science works because we assume it works.