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No, Science is a means of searching for those truths - definitely not some 'agreed upon understanding'. It's backed up by experimentation and reproducible proof
by squidbeak 1y ago
No, Science is a means of searching for those truths - definitely not some 'agreed upon understanding'. It's backed up by experimentation and reproducible proofs. You also make a huge bogus leap from science to humanities.
- iq176 1y agoScientific method is the process. Science itself includes the study and compendium of understandings, based on a belief system that includes shared understandings just like mathematics. The foundation of these are philosophical beliefs that we can know and understand these things. For example, on a metaphysical level, if the world around us were a simulation, then science could provide understandings about that simulated universe, but not about that which is simulating it.
- squidbeak 1y agoThis I'm afraid is rubbish. Scientific proofs categorically don't depend on philosophical beliefs. Reality is measurable and the properties measured don't care about philosophy.
- weltensturm 1y ago> Reality is measurable Heisenberg would disagree.
- squidbeak 1y agoAre you arguing that the uncertainty principle derives from philosophy rather than math?
- darkwater 1y agoBut those are still approximations to the actual underlying reality. Because the other option (and yes, it's a dichotomy) is that we already defined and understood every detail of the physics that applies to our universe.
- squidbeak 1y agoIndeed, that is a dichotomy: a false one. Science is exact without being finished.
- darkwater 1y agoSo, was Newtonian physics exact already?
- squidbeak 1y ago> Science is exact without being finished
- darkwater 1y agoBeing exact doesn't mean it is not an approximation, which was the initial topic. Being exact in science means that 2+2=4 and that can be demonstrated following a logical chain. But that doesn't make our knowledge of the universe exact. It is still an approximation. What it can be "exact" is how we obtain and reproduce the current knowledge we have of it.