(January 20, 2010 at 6:24 pm)chatpilot Wrote: Adrian said: "science is no way of knowing objective truths"
I disagree for one reason and that is that there are some truths that no matter how we choose to interpret them remain true, for instance what goes up must come down. If you throw a ball up as hard as you can it is an objective truth that the forces of gravity are going to act against the ball and force it back down. Subjectivity in this situation has no bearing since no matter what you believe that ball is still going to come back down.
That is a relative truth and you would be required to make a number of precursor statements for it to be objective truth, such as:
If you throw a ball 1)that isn't made of antimatter, 2)with < a certain amount of force and 3)from the surface of an object with sufficient gravitational influence etc, then it is objectively true that it will fall back towards the ground.
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