(March 5, 2009 at 5:51 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: What's this sudden attraction to the word 'truth'?You brought it up by claiming that I said that everything required evidence to be true, which I didn't. I said that everything required evidence to be held as "truth" in the scientific sense of the word.
Quote:Truth is a good philosophical term. Evidence is scientific. Don't confuse the two.I'm not, I just spent the last post explaining how they were different. Whilst scientific truth might be close to absolute truth (or even spot on) it can never know for certain.