Well, my view is that nothing's gonna undo science other than science itself (so no, and I don't believe theologians who say otherwise). On liberal democracy I'm more, um, explorative
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Replying to @Counteredlogos
Science as knowledge will survive. Science as an institution is threatened in different ways by the far-right and far-left.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
But Newtonian physics hasn't survived. Science undid it.
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Replying to @Counteredlogos
Yes, science is self-correcting. It holds that knowledge is always provisional and tries to falsify findings to weed out error.
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Science survives. The knowledge it produces is provisional, constantly corrected & updated.
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But content changes method, they develop together
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Replying to @Counteredlogos
Knowledge seeking by testing, falsifying, replicating. We have gained considerable scientific knowledge though methods change and things once thought true are refuted. In fact, that's how we have gained things like aeroplanes, computers & antibiotics.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Of course. But I'm fascinated by accounts of scientists discovering things which undermine even the classical inductive method, but that's not to say I think we can revert to before Francis Bacon or that I'm dismissing the whole enterprise.
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I have no reason to think you are.
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