It actually is an interesting and non-trivial question... On Jul 2, 2013, at 7:27 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> So, why do we care? Well, to begin with — and contra popular opinion > (especially among scientists) — it turns out that it is not exactly > straightforward to claim that science makes progress toward the truth about > the natural world, because it is not clear that we have a good theory of > truth to rely on; moreover, there are different conceptions of truth, some of > which likely represent the best we can do to justify our intuitive sense that > science does indeed make progress, but others that may constitute a better > basis to judge progress (understood in a different fashion) in other fields — > such as mathematics, logic, and of course, philosophy. I have a fairly trivial answer which is at least self-consistently true: * The Truth is what Works * What Works is not The Truth -- Ernie P. -- -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
