The scientific method cannot lead to certainty, but only high probability🧠
While the scientific method is powerfully effective for establishing truth, and seems to most of us the best method yet devised by mankind, it is made up of two elements that are fallible. The scientific method is a mixture of sense data with the old Greek pure reason. However, because perception is not absolute, all of our ideas are somewhat conjectural and inferential, and things that philosophers thought they knew through pure reason often ended up being wrong. Scientific generalizations which have lasted a long time have high probability, perhaps the highest probability of any generalizations, but it is only Idolatry which claims none of them will ever again have to be revised or rejected.
References
- Wilson, A., Robert (1986). The New Inquisition Chapter 1 Models, Metaphors, and Idols (Page 11 · Location 139). Grand Junction, Colorado: Hilaritas Press.
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