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Thank you! What you are saying resonates with me and I really want to believe it. Though I wish I could find such a good argument to ward off the incoming peopl

• advael 2y ago
  My education has equipped me quite adequately to fend off such critiques, and frankly I think it's a misuse of terminology to claim that studies "prove" anything, because the nature of empirical evidence even under the most generous assumptions is that a body of evidence can support or contradict conclusions, but "proof" as a concept comes from logical modes of inference, which only work within contexts where the conclusions drawn pertain to assumptions that are defined in a stricter sense than any of these fuzzy real-world questions permit
  • drcwpl 2y ago
    Science should seek to provide "good explanations" in the Deutsch sense, proof is rather questionable.