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May 17, 2012 · This has to do with how we use the word and is a very practical consideration. Just about every problem a scientist or science communicator comes across in the public understanding of “truth” is a function of mixing up these three things. Subjective Truth. Subjective truth is what is true about your experience of the world.
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Jul 1, 2021 · One popular move is to insist that science is right—full stop—and that once we discover the truth about the world, we are done. Anyone who denies such truths (they suggest) is stupid, ignorant ...
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One thought that might initially spring to mind is we ought to trust scientists because what they say is true. But there are problems with this. One is the question of whether what a scientist says is, in fact, the truth. Sceptics will point out scientists are just humans and remain prone to making mistakes. Also, if we look at the history of scien...
One influential answer to the question of why we should trust scientists is because they use the scientific method. This, of course, raises the question: what is the scientific method? Possibly the best-known account is offered by science philosopher Karl Popper, who has influenced an Einstein Medal-winning mathematical physicist and Nobel Prize wi...
Recently, an answer to the question was further articulated in a bookby science historian Naomi Oreskes. Oreskes acknowledges the importance Popper placed on the role of attempting to refute a theory, but also emphasises the social and consensual element of scientific practice. For Oreskes, we have reason to trust science because, or to the extent ...
This does not necessarily mean we ought to uncritically accept everything scientists say. There is of course a difference between a single isolated scientist or small group saying something, and there being a consensus within the scientific community that something is true. And, of course, for a variety of reasons – some practical, some financial, ...
Jul 13, 2019 · To a scientist, this illustrates extremely well the caveats associated with a term like scientific truth. Sure, it's more true that the Earth is a sphere than that the Earth is a disc or a circle.
- Ethan Siegel
Mar 10, 2017 · In science, what we refer to as truth is really a distillation of evidence. The quality of scientific truth is therefore dependent on the quality of the evidence, the quality of the research protocol, the quality and integrity of those carrying out the research and the vigilance and diligence of editors and peer reviewers.
- Rod Baber
- 2017
Oct 18, 2024 · Philosophy of science - Scientific Truth, Methodology, Epistemology: The previous discussion concentrated on only one of the controversies that surround scientific realism, the debate about whether talk of unobservables should have the same status as talk of observables. Contemporary exchanges, however, are often directed at a broader issue: the possibility of judging whether any claim at all ...
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When it comes to the ability to purvey truth, we should distinguish clearly between the utterly reliable physics of tide tables, say, and the messier end of psychology.
