(March 5, 2009 at 5:57 pm)Tiberius Wrote:I didn't claim. I quoted you word for word!(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.
The request from Kyu was to back up my claim that more than one person on this forum had said: "everything, without exception, requires evidence", which you and EvF did.
(March 5, 2009 at 5:57 pm)Tiberius Wrote:That was aimed at KyuQuote: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.