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Old 23rd November 2014, 10:59 AM   #2731
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Originally Posted by stevea View Post
The scientific method is not about discovering 'truth', and it's a massive error to assume it ever does.
An easy mistake, in that the scientific method is supposed to help individuals find a model that is most true to known facts and demonstrable evidences.

The purpose of the Scientific Method is to construct an accurate, reliable, self-consistent, (true) non-arbitrary representation (model) of the world (physical universe).

You seem to be speaking of Truth in a non-relativistic, absolutist manner that is more appropriate to personal beliefs/philosophia than to science. There are no universal, absolutist Truths known in the scientific understanding of the universe, just many conditionally true observations that we try to fit together to model the universe we observe and experience.
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