(March 26, 2023 at 10:38 am)FlatAssembler Wrote:(March 24, 2023 at 5:14 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: The consensus you’re imagining doesn’t exist. What constitutes ‘knowledge’ is very much an open question among epistemologists.
But that’s beside the point, which is whether a scientifically reached conclusion has a different value from the same conclusion reached by other means.
Boru
Since science is the most reliable way of knowing about the empirical things, it does.
It’s not about reliability, it’s about whether an accurate conclusion reached by happenstance has a value different from the same conclusion reached by scientific investigation.
Boru
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