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To: aNYCguy

"I suppose for truth you'd prefer to invent pleasing axioms out of whole cloth and deduce pleasing conclusions from them. That's fine for you, I suppose. It's a nice exercise and inconvenient observations won't rain on your parade.

Myself, I prefer the provisional, inductive truth of the scientific method."

If you define truth as provisional and inductive, how do you define opinion? How can you call it truth if it can change at any time? You have demonstrated the problem with scientism, it mocks (by assertion without argument) any source of truth outside the scientific method but then must, in the end, admit that the truth of scientism is provisional and inductive, in other words, just the latest opinion waiting to be supplanted by the next big idea. Ever learning but never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. Science is operational not cognitive.


234 posted on 06/06/2006 7:28:49 PM PDT by vigilo (Everything I needed to know about George Bush and the Republican Party I learned from CFR.)
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235 posted on 06/06/2006 8:40:01 PM PDT by Conservative Texan Mom (Some people say I'm stubborn, when it's usually just that I'm right.)
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To: vigilo
Ever learning but never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

So your beef with science is that its theories change to accomodate new information? That's funny; I've always considered this a strength.

What method, devoid of induction, do you use to find your unchanging truth? Could you give me an example of a truth you've found using this method?
236 posted on 06/06/2006 9:19:48 PM PDT by aNYCguy
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