I accept your apology for saying something incredibly stupid.
We've all done it at some point, and I really don't want a single absolutely and incredibly dumb thing said to come in between us in discussing this WRT to epistemology, and other forms of logic and debate.
I just want to offer the olive branch, before we get back to each others throats on this thread.
DK
I am aware that afer several centures of successful science, philosophers have attemped to rationalize what it is that scientists do. They haven't been very successful. there is no philosophical definition that helps scientists create new techniques for investigation.