• Tavarin@lemmy.ca
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    11 months ago

    An extremely consistent, useful, and accurate approximation of course, good enough to make important decisions with.

    Honestly, that is truth. The word truth has been bastardized by common use, but in science a theory is truth.

    And there are also established facts in science, you keep forgetting about those.

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      11 months ago

      That’s the brain rot I’m talking about. You are conflating overwhelming consensus with absolutes. If everyone believed as you, we’d still believe in alchemy and humors. Absolute certainty is the greatest conceit. These “truths” and “facts” you speak of are only such in the colloquial sense. It is imperative that a serious scientist remembers that. Brush up your epistemology.