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To: Moonman62

1) “beyond a reasonable doubt” is a legal standard, not a scientific one.

2) It’s completely outside the bounds of science to “establish truth”. Science only attempts to fashion approximate explanations for our observations. Truth, on the other hand, is an absolute, that we surmise from metaphysical principles is the origin of our observations. An approximation can never equal an absolute, it can only approximate it.


134 posted on 08/12/2014 10:23:06 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Boogieman

>>An approximation can never equal an absolute, it can only approximate it.<<

Since I am on a grammar roll, that is a tautology.


141 posted on 08/12/2014 10:32:56 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (AGW "Scientific method:" Draw your lines first, then plot your points)
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