I don't need a method to know I have a headache. — Banno
I don't need a method to know I have a headache. — Banno
Otherwise, you're left with saying that every primitive culture engages in the first step of the scientific method every time they observe something. — Hanover
How do I know it is true you have a headache? how do you make your truth, my truth? — Rank Amateur
Interesting response. As noted in my listing of the scientific method steps above, all of the data gathered in step 2 ("Gather information and resources (observe)") would be accepted without formal method. You'd just have the phenomenal state and accept it as true, making phenomenal states foundational. — Hanover
While it is an excellent rhetorical device, the line "how do you make your truth, my truth?" will not do. If something is true for you, but false for me, then either one of us has mis-stated what is going on, or one of us is wrong. There is no "my truth" and "your truth". Relativism cannot be made coherent. — Banno
That is, I reject the notion that what is true is relative to the conceptual schema within which one works. And I would do this by pointing out that some explanations are just wrong. — Banno
Nope. Maybe superseded in your idea of a science, but not theirs, and if theirs is a time long gone, then never superseded at all. Why? Because this is a matter of the history. Your science - or anyone's - does not transcend the history. And the history does not concern itself with right and wrong, only with what is (or is not), at a particular time.agree in total, the history of the scientific method is a long line error assumed correct until superseded, — Rank Amateur
And which scientific test would you subject the truth of this claim to? — StreetlightX
Consider the postulate: The only tool we have available to provide support or not for the truth of anything is application of the scientific method. — Scribble
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