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> the fact that medicine deals in facts medicine benefits from facts, but is largely based on experienced, expert opinion
by fsckboy 3y ago
> the fact that medicine deals in facts
medicine benefits from facts, but is largely based on experienced, expert opinion
- riwsky 3y agoAnd experience is the practical contact with and observation of facts, over an extended period. Most English dictionaries explicitly separate out “formal judgment by an expert” as a distinct meaning for “opinion” from the more common meaning of personal subjective no-facts-needed belief.