RE: How we determine facts.
January 8, 2015 at 3:23 pm
(This post was last modified: January 8, 2015 at 3:25 pm by BlackMason.)
(January 6, 2015 at 8:58 pm)Heywood Wrote: It is essentially this thinking that we use to determine what is a fact or at least likely to be true of reality and what isn't.
No, you're wrong. That my friend is called inductive reasoning. Science relies heavily on this approach.
A fact is objective. A fact is something that is already known too. In your above example it is unknown what marbles are in there. Facts use deductive reasoning like mathematical proofs. The conclusion of a proof will not change even with new info so long as you've constructed your proof correctly.
8000 years before Jesus, the Egyptian god Horus said, "I am the way, the truth, the life."
