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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Replying to @HPluckrose
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
It's not solipsism. It's fallibilism. It's the humility to admit that we may be wrong about absolutely *anything*.
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Replying to @christianjbdev
No! Fallibism is great. 'I believe cats are iphones' is not fallibism. 'We could be wrong in our assessment of things even that profound' is
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Replying to @HPluckrose @christianjbdev
We can provisionally accept that cats are biological organisms & iPhones man-made technology w/out forgetting that knowledge is provisional
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Replying to @HPluckrose @christianjbdev
We must be able to say at some point that some answers are just wrong & marginalise them. Evolution is true. Vaccines do not cause autism.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Like I said - it's a balance. We should favour expert opinion, but also allow challenges to dogma.
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Replying to @christianjbdev
Well, I think 'It's OK to reject the opinion that cats are iPhones' gets that balance. Many other issues abt nature of cats still debatable.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
The cat-iphone thing is a bit of a cheat, cos it's such an easily verifiable claim. Many of our debates are about much more complex issues.
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Yes, it doesn't work for things for that are still debatable and I don't think accepting that some opinions are just wrong suggests it does.
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