Science is not a social construct. Science’s truths were true before there were societies; will still be true after all philosophers are dead; were true before any philosophers were born; were true before there were any minds, even trilobite or dinosaur minds, to notice them.
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If humans didn't exist, the scientific principles that govern the universe would still exist, oustide any bounds of social construct. A single neutral non-human observer would return scientific observations that are not (and can never be) socially constructed.
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I mean I could go for pissing off Dawkins here, too, and call that single non-human observer God, but I've disrupted enough for the day.
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Observation is the first step of empiricism. Theorizing is the first step of science. Read some David Deutsch
(or anything else, subsequent to Francis Bacon...).Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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