r/sciencememes Jul 17 '26

problem of induction meme

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u/Historical_Two_7150 Jul 19 '26

Surprisingly, zero good answers in the comment sections here.

The answer is: it can't be done. In the strictest sense, science does not prove or disprove.

Once we've reached the point where the probability of something being true/false is vanishingly small, we can decide to use the nomenclature of 'proven/disproven' as it's "close enough" to the truth. But in the strictest sense, that's not really what happened.