Comments on: What Science is(n’t) http://www.bornagainskeptic.net/2008/05/05/what-science-isnt/ choice. understanding. perspective. Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:24:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: BaS http://www.bornagainskeptic.net/2008/05/05/what-science-isnt/comment-page-1/#comment-22 BaS Wed, 28 May 2008 02:18:54 +0000 http://www.BornAgainSkeptic.net/?p=16#comment-22 It's just that the word "truth" is dangerous to lob around, especially when a majority of your society holds a very different definition of it. It’s just that the word “truth” is dangerous to lob around, especially when a majority of your society holds a very different definition of it.

]]> By: Ardvaark http://www.bornagainskeptic.net/2008/05/05/what-science-isnt/comment-page-1/#comment-21 Ardvaark Mon, 26 May 2008 15:19:37 +0000 http://www.BornAgainSkeptic.net/?p=16#comment-21 So if the Platonic essence of how "nature actually behaves" is the "truth", then Science is just a mechanism for better resolving the shadows on the wall of the cave - "our beliefs about how nature behaves". Sounds like a good-enough definition of truth for me. So if the Platonic essence of how “nature actually behaves” is the “truth”, then Science is just a mechanism for better resolving the shadows on the wall of the cave – “our beliefs about how nature behaves”.

Sounds like a good-enough definition of truth for me.

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