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Re: A datum of experience
Aug 27, 2013, 23:12
tiompan wrote:
Whilst both maybe almost mutually exclusive they do provide meaning , if of differing types , within the two different communities .


Qua definitione, you’ll be familiar with The Galileo Affair where said astrologer fell foul of the Inquisition over his support for Copernican astronomy. While Galileo’s observations provided meanings that were later proven to be ‘true’ the Church’s interpretations (meanings) of the same observations were subsequently found to be untrue. Both may have been meanings ‘of different types’ but one was more meaningful (provable) than the other. That’s not to say, of course, that the former (Galileo's) will prove any more true in the long run for, as you say, “..."truth" is not achieveable in science , only better models of reality which are there to be proven wrong and are only as good until a better one comes along .”

We could say that about a lot of things. A game of moving the goalposts to suit the situation springs to mind :-)
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