(February 4, 2015 at 3:39 pm)watchamadoodle Wrote:(February 4, 2015 at 3:09 pm)Parkers Tan Wrote: No, we need not assume his claims are true in order to test them.
I can't believe we are arguing about things that I'm sure we both already understand fully. Are you guys trying to needle me until I leave the forum? That's the impression I'm getting.
Science is similar to a proof by contradiction. That is why the claims must be falsifiable. We assume the claim and look at the implications of that assumption. We design an experiment in hopes of demonstrating that the implication is false and therefore the original claim we assumed is also false.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_by_contradiction
Not really. We form a hypothesis and test it. We don't assume it's true.
It is not the same as Proof by Contradiction which is a logical proof of a true/false proposition. In science, it is rare to form true/false hypotheses.
Skepticism is not a position; it is an approach to claims.
Science is not a subject, but a method.
Science is not a subject, but a method.
