(05-06-2019, 11:28 AM)IndigoGeminiWolf Wrote: ...Like there are a lot of scientific facts that are Truth, and those are all objective. That means that they are the same to everyone. Like gravity. It's an objective truth.
There is no Objective Truth in science. This is very misunderstood by us. The only area of science that can try to approach objective truth is pure mathematics and even then !
Look at the work of Karl Popper regarding the scientific method. It is NOT about proving anything. Science test hypotheses in order to disprove them. As long as an hypothesis survives, it remains valid and useful. It WILL be invalidated at some point and something more useful will replace it.
Even a wildly successful one like General Relativity is not the truth and scientists knows this. Something better (truer) will replace it and something else after that, etc...
A true scientist would never say something like: "X has been proven!". Instead you would hear: "There is very good evidence in support of X and all tests so far were unable to disprove it".
The goal of science is to prove that something is false. Even this endeavor can only be achieved subjectively IMHO.
Quote:Philosophy of arithmetic
Popper's principle of falsifiability runs into prima facie difficulties when the epistemological status of mathematics is considered. It is difficult to conceive how simple statements of arithmetic, such as "2 + 2 = 4", could ever be shown to be false. If they are not open to falsification they can not be scientific. If they are not scientific, it needs to be explained how they can be informative about real world objects and events.
Popper's solution[sup][43][/sup] was an original contribution in the philosophy of mathematics. His idea was that a number statement such as "2 apples + 2 apples = 4 apples" can be taken in two senses. In one sense it is irrefutable and logically true, in the second sense it is factually true and falsifiable. Concisely, the pure mathematics "2 + 2 = 4" is always true, but, when the formula is applied to real-world apples, it is open to falsification.[sup][44][/sup]