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 Originally Posted by wufwugy
What is he saying here?
https://twitter.com/langdaleca/statu...39741298520064
Is he saying something like scientific observations show fundamental assumptions are true due to transitive logic? That doesn't strike me as correct. I've got to be misunderstanding his point. Please help me understand this.
He's saying that if your starting point is something that is faith then all the other stuff you got from that starting point is also faith. I don't mean faith necessarily in a religious way.
I think it's kind of how we've spoken about axioms before and how everything builds upon those axioms but there isn't anything particularly true or real about those axioms by definition. When people say things like this they tend to be pushing the whole it's all takes belief to believe argument which when we've looked at the rigour involved in those axioms we know this isn't in any way a fair or real comparison.
It's also really not the point, as MMM points out all the time the point of science isn't some universal truth it's a tool.
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