(May 26, 2020 at 5:37 pm)Rhizomorph13 Wrote: I would not claim that everything is knowable. For example it is a basic truth that the world is real and there is NO way to prove that. I've accepted that, but we should use science to approach working theories. There is no value in predicating unfalsifiable solutions to problems.
You seem to go reaching for weird solutions and I'm not sure you realize how irrational that is; talk of demons and spirits. They are fascinating to a point but when one confronts reality with tests, one finds out pretty quick that reality is a good deal simpler than the fancies that the mind can concoct.
Is this directed at me?
I'm glad we agree that there is much we can't be sure of.
It's not irrational to offer examples of things that science wouldn't be able to address. That's what we're talking about -- whether there are things that science can't address.
Are you sure that reality is simpler than our fancies? “Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.” ― Werner Heisenberg
Again, if we limit ourselves to certain kinds of research methods we pre-determine what kind of results we will get. But the world we're unaware of may be pretty damn strange.