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> scientific understanding is not extraneous to experience; it is entirely about experience Not true: Science is precisely about finding truths that hold even
by chimpanzee2 5mo ago
> scientific understanding is not extraneous to experience; it is entirely about experience
Not true: Science is precisely about finding truths that hold even if our conscious experience of them vanished the very next moment.
> Empiricism, the grounding of knowledge in experience
Another false equivalency: by "experience" here he means "observation", not consciousness. Observations are data points, consciousness is not.