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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: neolib who wrote (284610)12/4/2015 11:10:55 AM
From: Sun Tzu  Read Replies (3) of 541851
 
But we don't tend to be agnostic on the myriad possibilities of other things that have no evidence for existence.
That is untrue. We are not able to live without a measure of faith, even if that faith is in "science". Suppose you want to draw a conclusion about something. You will make observations, then you organize and categorize those observations, then you analyze what you have, and from that you will draw a logical conclusion. And then you pat yourself on the back for being rational, evidence based, and "scientific."

Yet in every step of the way you used an element of faith. There is no science in choosing how much evidence you should gather. You simply gathered as much evidence as you thought was enough. Nor did you look at the universe at large to collect that evidence. You had preconceptions about whether or not to include the phase of the moon, the quantum spin, geological formations, or the type of bacteria to put into your evidence. And although I made that list intentionally broad, there have been uncountable cases where the solution came from a field that everyone thought was unrelated to the problem. The same goes for how you categorized and analyzed the data.

So in short there is no such thing as an objective reality or pure science. You are simply putting your faith in areas that agree with your disposition.

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