RE: Agnosticism IS the most dishonest position
March 2, 2020 at 9:17 am
(This post was last modified: March 2, 2020 at 9:18 am by Abaddon_ire.)
(March 2, 2020 at 7:44 am)Belacqua Wrote:(March 2, 2020 at 7:34 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Science does indeed demonstrate what's true, while philosophy does not.
This is a philosophical statement. It can't be proven by science.
Proofs are for mathematics. Science does not deal in proofs of anything. Science deals in observations, hypotheses, demonstrations, evidence, repeatability and so forth, not proof.
It amuses me that you would make such a sophomoric philosophical error.
(March 2, 2020 at 8:32 am)Belacqua Wrote: Was there a repeatable empirical test conducted to prove that the results of science are true? In which journal were the results published?
Or is it just that results found through scientific means have proved internally consistent and extremely useful, leading us to define "true" as "internally consistent and extremely useful"?
Is there a scientific (empirical repeatable) test to show that this definition is the best one? Or is it our philosophical commitment that internally consistent and extremely useful results are what we'll call "true"?
And that you continue to make the very same error over and over.
