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Old 06-07-2010, 05:49 PM   #76
beppe
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Originally Posted by mike_bike_kite View Post
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
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.
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