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Saturday, September 28, 2013

How Much of Science is "Just" Thinking About the Right Things?

People seeking usable knowledge of how we know what we know, and what is truth, and how to only know what is true and not know what isn't so will almost certainly spend some time thinking about science, and why it is "successful".

In High School science texts, in my day, they gave a quick tour of certain canonical facts, but also made some feeble attempt to answer the question of why science works.  The answer they gave was something like "The Experimental Method".  It is something like: