So what endures? Commitment to truth?
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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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Replying to @Counteredlogos @HPluckrose
And yes aeroplanes, computers, and antibiotics are great. We just need science now to deal with climate change and antibiotic resistant bugs and I'll love it even more.
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Replying to @Counteredlogos
Me too. It's the only thing that can and this is why antimodernists undermining or rejecting it worry me so much.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Well I don't know if it can or not, nor if it does what shadows the next set of redemptive eurekas will cast. Maybe that's the nub of where we differ.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
On the point where we differ I meant that science or rather civilisations each create their own problems. Liberal democracy and the scientific paradigm has its problems. I suspect its problems will eventually destroy it, and another group of civilisations will replace it.
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Replying to @Counteredlogos
Quite possibly. I wouldn't bother arguing to preserve it if I didn't think it was in danger.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Well I suppose I'm interested in what endures from it
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It could be anything from Islam to socialism to pure capitalism. I don't favour a wait and see approach. I'll argue for liberal secular democracy.
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