RE: The Question of Why
December 27, 2011 at 6:48 pm
(This post was last modified: December 27, 2011 at 6:49 pm by Perhaps.)
(December 27, 2011 at 4:35 pm)Rhythm Wrote: 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.
I was never criticizing science. Instead of attacking me everytime I post something, Rhythm, maybe you should read and try to determine the purpose. I am defending my hypothesis. The fact that science works, does not change the fact that it is induced. It is an assumption which is verified with evidence. It's stength is that it is meant to be criticized, no argument there, but do not state that it determines truths or facts, unless you specify that those truths and facts are relative to the time and knowledge available.
Brevity is the soul of wit.