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Observing a ball falling down once, even if you are 99.999% sure of what you saw, is still not a deductive process so it’s still a categorically different thing
by jl6 3y ago
Observing a ball falling down once, even if you are 99.999% sure of what you saw, is still not a deductive process so it’s still a categorically different thing than a mathematical proof.
(The remaining 0.001%: maybe you were hallucinating and there was no ball)
- tremon 3y agomaybe you were hallucinating and there was no ball ...at which point you've left the domain of science and have entered the philosophical domain of epistemology. Neither the existence of the term "mathematical proof" nor epistemic quandaries invalidate the concept of scientific proof, and what that term means within the domain of the natural sciences.