The word/concept "perfect" was "developed" by "fallible and irrational humans" as well, so we do have the authority to apply it. The 3/4/5 right triangle is pe

The word/concept "perfect" was "developed" by "fallible and irrational humans" as well, so we do have the authority to apply it. The 3/4/5 right triangle is perfect. The perfect fifth in music is (tautologically) perfect. "p or not p" is perfect. Perhaps none of these things can be reproduced in the physical world in a perfect manner, but the concepts really are perfect. Anything in idea-space can in fact be perfect, and the scientific method lives in idea-space. In the realm of perfection, there isn't really any difference between "developing" something and "discovering" it. Did we "develop" the scientific method or "discover" it? I think that's a meaningless distinction. It's the loop that describes how inductive reasoning is applied by limited observers to a structured universe. People were doing it before it was "developed".