Yes, something like the scientific method, but the scientific method also allows that ppl can come up with any crazy idea to test.
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Replying to @christianjbdev
Of course. But you were talking about telling truth from falsity and that is the testing part.
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Replying to @christianjbdev
You were just saying science can be difficult? I'm sure that's true. But I think that thread was about the existence of right &wrong answers
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But how do we know which are the right and wrong answers? We can only use science, and even then, we only have provisional truth.
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Replying to @christianjbdev
Sure, but that works & keeps revising itself. Solipsism is interesting to think about for about 5 minutes but then we need to do life.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @christianjbdev
Maybe all this is an illusion & cats are iPhones but better to work on the hypothesis that it's not & take Suki to vet for treatment.
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Replying to @christianjbdev
I like Sokal &Bricmont on this.They say radical sceptics cld be right & there's no reality but perfectly reasonable hypothesis that there is
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Replying to @HPluckrose @christianjbdev
And I don't think we need to worry nearly as much abt a lack of recognition of fallibility in established knowledge as abt the opposite...
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The undermining of the idea that objective knowledge & truth exist & that there are better & worse ways of getting closer to them.
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