If you're interested in exploring this further, we can start a new thread and invite people to participate. Then they can speak for themselves.
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The Philosophy of Science
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If you're interested in exploring this further, we can start a new thread and invite people to participate. Then they can speak for themselves.
It seems we already have. A better option for saving time might have been to ignore me. But here we are. I created the thread/poll here should you choose to participate.
I think doing it this way will help avoid accusations of cherry-picking and misinterpretation. And, to be honest, I don't care about the outcome. If a legion of unbelievers marches in and declares science the only means of knowing, maybe you'll believe I've had the experience I claim to have had. If a legion of unbelievers insists there are other means of knowing, it's great they agree with my vote on the matter.
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The thing with science foundationally would be distinct from the methodology that varies depending on the 4 main types (Which I'll admit I wasn't that familiar with in that categorization): formal, natural, social and applied
Science at its core is seeking to have the best understanding of things given our observations and understanding of them in a framework that is open to correction and not purely based on consensus, but consideration that the ideas we present are meant to be provisional in nature
Science at its core is seeking to have the best understanding of things given our observations and understanding of them in a framework that is open to correction and not purely based on consensus, but consideration that the ideas we present are meant to be provisional in nature
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How do theory, then observation, and confirmation/refutation work?
There are many views.
How do scientific revolutions happen? Individual, in groups, only when so-called "great scientists" die?
Does science represent the real world or do we assume antirealism?
Is there a sociology to scientific knowledge?
These are many of the same assumptions we must ask of religious claims. If someone is a evidentialist they would necessarily engage non-theists from a different perspective than that of someone holding to a reformed epistemology.
Your description is fine for CF. But the OP is highlighting the complete lack of understanding by the non-theists out here and the consequence being poisoning the wells to most knowledge not just the religious knowledge claims they want to artificially exterminate (albeit haplessly) by same.
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