(December 13, 2015 at 2:39 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:Quote:Proof is when you have enough scientific evidence to reach a conclusion
Not exactly. 'Proved' has a someone different meaning in science that it does in philosophy. I think it was Asimov (I may be mistaken and can't be arsed to look it up) who said, ' "Proved" in the sciences can only mean that a proposition is established to such a high degree of confidence that to withhold provisional assent would be perverse.' Properly speaking, all scientific conclusions are provisional, never 'proved'.
Boru
Oh! Thanks Boru. Yes, that's a bit different. Not being a scientist, I forget that scientists treat all "proof" as proof until better proof comes along.

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