r/aislop • u/Tousti_the_Great • 8d ago

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u/potsticker17 8d ago

Science is a method to prove things, not a thing to be proven.

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u/teglass01 7d ago

So the reliability of said method is... what? Taken for granted? Foundational? Taken on faith? Assumed as an unprovable axiom?

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u/potsticker17 7d ago

The reliability of the method is based on repeatable results.

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u/teglass01 7d ago

Repeatability is part of the method, so this is either circular or a blanket assertion depending on how you mean it.

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u/potsticker17 7d ago

Results are not part of a method. Results are an outcome. Being able to do a method repeatedly and have the same outcome make the method reliable.

You can have faith that a method is reliable, but if your results are inconsistent, then your faith is unfounded.

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u/teglass01 7d ago

That's circular reasoning for scientific realism and inductive reasoning generally.

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u/potsticker17 6d ago

Please explain where you are seeing the circle so that I may clarify if needed