RE: The Question of Why
December 27, 2011 at 4:35 pm
(This post was last modified: December 27, 2011 at 4:37 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(December 27, 2011 at 3:08 pm)Perhaps Wrote: There is a distinct difference between reason and purpose. Reason infers causality, while purpose infers meaning.
Causality is observed through science but will ultimately fall back on to inductive assumption of cause (committing a deductive fallacy) - This was the aim of my hypothesis. The most prominent image of this occurring is 'cogito ergo sum' - essentially 'this is true, therefore this is the cause'. This simply does not work if one is trying to deductively prove a cause. One cannot observe a conclusion and induce a cause and say it is proof of the cause. As any mathematician would tell you, it only takes one counter example to negate a proof, so while science may think it knows the cause, it may change at any time as knowledge grows.
Maybe you should stop inferring things and demonstrate them? That would put a wrench in the gears of the why train, now wouldn't it?
"Blah blah blah, inductive reasoning, the basis of scientific theory, is a logical fallacy." Canaries in the mines. Satellites aren't falling out of the sky on the basis of their operation being comprised entirely of a logical fallacy. You see, one cannot prove anything logically with induction, but it's fairly easy to demonstrate that the results of induction can be factually accurate.....so long as you have evidence. Of course our knowledge changes as the data available to us changes. Way to state the blisteringly obvious. That's no criticism of science at all, that's exactly how it is designed to work.
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