Is science the only way to knowledge?

[MindForgedManacle]

To say that "Science is the only way to know things" is self-refuting. Clearly that statement is itself purported knowledge, yet wasn't itself arrived at by science.

Further, there seem to be domains in which science isn't useful. Ironically (given the thread title), one such field (among others) would seem to be epistemology, that is, theories of knowledge. And some epistemic definition (say 'justified true belief') and metaphysical assumptions (whether ontological or simply methodological) are necessary for science on the outset, which entails having some knowledge before the science begins.


I think Daniel Dennett put it well:

But there is no such thing as philosophy-free science; there is only science whose philosophical baggage is taken on board without examination.

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To add some, other areas where science seems useless would be about, say, what is truth? Is it the correspondence between assertion and reality (correspondence theory) or does truth refer to statements that cohere together (coherence theory).

Or ethics. Political philosophy? Logic?

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Vinny, for someone who supposedly knows a lot about philosophy, you asked some weird questions. Specifically the solipsism one. That can't be known by definition, hence why external world skepticism has been an undeniable pain in the ass for philosophy for 2300+ years. And Kant's work demonstrating an inherent prohibition on us being able to know anything about whatever reality may be beyond our perceptions was - as far as I can tell - the nail in the coffin.