Sorry, I think I'm annoyed by the rash of repeat threads with repeat questions that are really making assertions, and replied the same way.
I think you're right, it is getting into the area of epistemology, in a way, but epistemology itself has been hijacked by people like A. Plantinga, who are deliberately throwing regress out as preventative of knowledge without an ultimate authority.
Science is built on a foundation of Justifiably True Beliefs that are demonstrated true so often they qualify as a body of knowledge or facts to rest other JtBs on.
It's a scaffolding framework over regress, and it isn't perfect or based on any ultimate authority, but it still maintains, and parts of the structure can be repaired, updated or modified without the whole structure coming down.
We don't have observable evidence for some areas of science, especially theoretical physics, because of the span of time and size of events involved, but we can extrapolate data from the existing JtB framework and test them by computer modeling, with mathematics, and eventually in the case of planets forming with future observation.
I think you're right, it is getting into the area of epistemology, in a way, but epistemology itself has been hijacked by people like A. Plantinga, who are deliberately throwing regress out as preventative of knowledge without an ultimate authority.
Science is built on a foundation of Justifiably True Beliefs that are demonstrated true so often they qualify as a body of knowledge or facts to rest other JtBs on.
It's a scaffolding framework over regress, and it isn't perfect or based on any ultimate authority, but it still maintains, and parts of the structure can be repaired, updated or modified without the whole structure coming down.
We don't have observable evidence for some areas of science, especially theoretical physics, because of the span of time and size of events involved, but we can extrapolate data from the existing JtB framework and test them by computer modeling, with mathematics, and eventually in the case of planets forming with future observation.
