On Mon, 11 Jan 2021 20:56:41 +0000, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:

> On Mon, 11 Jan 2021 04:43:50 +0000 The Natural Philosopher
>  wrote:
>
>> Physicists started to realise that physics wasn't about uncovering
>> truths so much as simply creating models that worked. Karl Popper
>> elucidated the whole position of science rather well in that respect.
>> And once you move science out of the realm of 'truth discovery' and
>> into the realm of 'model invention', you run into the Problem of
>> Induction.
>
>  I've always thought of science as a mechanism for pruning out
> guesses that don't work rather than a mechanism for finding the truth.

Yes, agreed, but there's another essential ingredient: critical thinking.
The scientific method doesn't work if the would-be scientist doesn't
understand or use it.


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