Comment on What are the strengths of the scientific method? What are its weaknesses?
humorlessrepost@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Its strength is generating models of reality that have predictive power.
Its weaknesses are a lack of absolute certainty and the inability to model that which has no detectable impact on reality. Though I don’t know of any alternative system that can demonstrably do either.
onion@feddit.de 8 months ago
Also never touching any why-questions
gregorum@lemm.ee 8 months ago
I don’t think this is true. “Why” questions merely need to be translated from the abstract to the tangible in order to be tested.
Perhaps you meant the philosophical and/or metaphysical?
protist@mander.xyz 8 months ago
Why?
Beldarofremulak@lemmy.world 8 months ago
We got some 101’s in here beanbag chairin it up.
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Because without facts, what you have is not “truth.” It’s either speculation or bullshit.
Dr_Satan@lemm.ee 8 months ago
To get a fact out of an observation requires interpretation and a desire-to-interpret. It’s observation translated into dream.
humorlessrepost@lemmy.world 8 months ago
“Why”, when distinguished from “how”, is asking about the intent of a thinking agent. Neuroscience, psychology, and sociology exist. Am I misunderstanding your point?