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minus-squareintensely_human@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25·6 months agoScience is not the truth. Science is a mechanism for finding the truth.
minus-squaremortemtyrannis@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·6 months agoWhat is truth? If you take a materialist philosophical view, maybe you can arrive at some kind of understanding of the universe through the scientific method. If you have other views things get far more complicated. I’m a materialist atheist btw but delving into philosophy makes me less certain we can ever arrive at ‘truth’.
Science is not the truth. Science is a mechanism for finding the truth.
What is truth?
If you take a materialist philosophical view, maybe you can arrive at some kind of understanding of the universe through the scientific method.
If you have other views things get far more complicated.
I’m a materialist atheist btw but delving into philosophy makes me less certain we can ever arrive at ‘truth’.