Comment on What are the strengths of the scientific method? What are its weaknesses?

• protist@mander.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  But how do you define “facts?” And how do you define “truth?” And how do you define “is?”

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  • kofe@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    We’ll see who cancels who?

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  • humorlessrepost@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Thanks, Jordan.

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• asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I think the point is this is paradoxical. Everything must be proven by facts and we cannot trust any general, abstract statement of its own accord, then how can we prove “everything must be proven by facts and we cannot trust any general, abstract statement of its own accord”? What if that’s a wrong assumption?

  Maybe the truth is we don’t always need to rely on observable facts, but we don’t know that because we’re making the aforementioned assumption without having any proof that it’s correct.

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  • auzas_1337@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    axioms have entered the chat

    The deeper you go in the why territory, the more abstract and tangental your axioms get.

    So yeah. All facts and truths ultimately rest on foundations that are either kinda unobservable or unproven. Doesn’t make them less practical or true (by practical definitions) though.

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