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This seems to be, on the face of it, an incredibly superficial take. To start with there is a seminal work on just this topic: Genesis and Development of a Scie
by Certhas 4y ago
This seems to be, on the face of it, an incredibly superficial take. To start with there is a seminal work on just this topic: Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact, Ludwik Fleck
Then to summarize the "there are no facts" position as "the idea that many philosophers of science muse that such ice ages probably didn’t exist and are just “nice ideas” that are currently popular amongst scientists who have been indoctrinated into a particular paradigm." is in parts wrong and on top of that incredibly misleading. I challenge you to find a single philosopher of sciemce who would assert that "ice ages probably didn’t exist". This imaginary philosopher does not exist, doubly so as this strawman would assert a fact about the world (specifically that the probability that ice ages have existed is low), in blatant contradiction to the "there are no facts" idea.