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(89,996 posts)at random times and intervals.
I like saving essays and commentaries like this. Its validating at a time when the donald would eagerly whitewash and rewrite DAMN NEAR EVERYTHING!!!
BurnDoubt
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(33,572 posts)-misanthroptimist
(1,614 posts)There almost certainly aren't such facts. But even if there was such a fact, how could we prove that future piece of information wouldn't modify or negate such a fact? The answer is...we couldn't.
The idea that all knowledge is provisional is the core of the Scientific Method. Scientific conclusions and facts are based on the available evidence. We can never know -no matter how confident we are- if we are in possession of all the relevant information.
applegrove
(132,184 posts)Examples of objective reality include physical laws (e.g., gravity), mathematical truths and events that happened regardless of interpretation (e.g., historical dates).
-misanthroptimist
(1,614 posts)You are, whether you realize it or not, asserting that we know everything about, "physical laws (e.g., gravity), mathematical truths and events that happened regardless of interpretation (e.g., historical dates)." Please demonstrate that no further knowledge exists about any or all of these.
It can't be done. All we can say about any of them is that we have reached the soundest conclusions possible with the evidence that we currently possess.
This is not a weakness. It is a strength, perhaps the greatest strength of the Scientific Method.
applegrove
(132,184 posts)of physics or math. But we know enough to send a rocket behind the moon.