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Simon Kramer's avatar

Science is not the basis of all truth. Nore will it ever be. The statment all truth comes from science is self defeating because it cannot be proven by science.

Science is the study of cause and effect.

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Clintavo's avatar

Good thing I didn't say all truth comes from science. Science is not the basis of any truth. It is an attempt to understand and explain the truth.

It's a bit more than studying cause and effect. You have to conjecture what is underlying the cause and form falsifiable, testable ideas about the cause and effect. Science is forming falsifiable hypothesis (best guesses) about the truth and then testing those ideas to see if they accurately predict what happens or not. Science is an attempt to understand the truth, even knowing it will always be an incomplete understanding (Godel's incompleteness theorem)

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