This is a point about why people might be afraid to say they believe in objective truth which is obvious but does not provide any disagreement with my point about what objective truth is. And no, I do not live in a country with free speech.https://twitter.com/BraneRunner/status/1000040998209191938 …
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Even in Physics there are differences of opinion. “Objective truth” is an ideal “Platonic” concept but it would be difficult for individual human beings with all their flaws and biases to know everything. Besides politics is not “rocket science”
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Replying to @BraneRunner @HPluckrose
In science there are theories, they are not opinions. While scientists might hold their theory as correct, every decent scientist would agree that the ideal would be that eventually those theories are tested, even refined until it is no longer a theory and the truth emerges.
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Replying to @JeffAlberda @BraneRunner
Theories in science are explanations for facts which are constantly adapted by new facts. They don't become true. They explain truths. eg gravitational theory explains the fact that things fall towards the earth. Scientists dont have their own theories but their own hypotheses.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @BraneRunner
sorry yes that is a better explanation of what I meant, I'm a lowly layman. By the truth emerges I meant more that what is correct is determined.
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Helen Pluckrose Retweeted Chris Colose
I am a lowly layman too. Chris put it well.https://twitter.com/CColose/status/1000050448424939527 …
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