Friday, March 28th, 2014
What makes a claim "scientific"?
Is there something different about a scientific knowledge claim that makes it distinguishable/distinct/unique from other types of knowledge claims?
A claim that is "scientific" is proven "true" by a scientific experiment following the scientific method. It is one that has undergone the correct processes of a scientific experiment, with hypothesis and variables and controls and so on and so forth. Scientific knowledge is part of the "universal" knowledge that is accepted as true, that is not questioned often. And this is probably because they have not been proven untrue. Most, if not all, scientific knowledge has been accepted because they have not been proven false, instead of having been proven true.
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