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Originally Posted by mike_bike_kite
I'm guessing here but science is built on theories. When a theory is proved wrong then it's discarded and another, hopefully better, theory replaces it. Science can't actually prove a theory to be true but it can prove one false. All the current scientific theories are therefore "trusted" to be true until proved otherwise.
Just my 2c
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This is very profound, and very clearly stated.
There is a quite established line of thought, due originally to Popper, according to which the only steps forward, toward a better understanding (of anything in practice) are trough a process of
confutation (falsification).
In other words and extending the image, you learn only if you break the rules. I love that.