(March 22, 2019 at 8:19 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote:(March 22, 2019 at 8:05 pm)Belaqua Wrote: I said very clearly that there is no magical other method. This is something you have imagined. I have never argued for it, and frankly I don't know why you're on about it.
Ah, so then you agree with me that the scientific method is the only demonstrably reliable method we have for acquiring knowledge about reality. Excellent! We’re on the same page now. 😏
If you're taking the word "reality" to mean "that which science demonstrates," then science is the only reliable method we have to demonstrate the things that science demonstrates. Whether or not what it demonstrates is reality or not is a metaphysical question, about which you are very certain.
I honestly think you would benefit from an intro course in metaphysics, if you want to discuss it at all.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphysics