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Originally Posted by kennyc
None-scientific knowledge may or may not be true or false but if it is outside the realm of science there is no way to determine whether it is true or false. It may give you warm fuzzies or may in fact be true, but it can't be validated.
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You seem not to be acknowledging the distinction between declarative and procedural knowledge, and I am left confused about what you take knowledge to be, since there might be "true" knowledge and "false" knowledge.
It is a truism that much of what has passed as scientific knowledge is now not thought to be true. A question then is; was it true, on your account of knowledge, when the "community of scientists" thought it was true. When that community of scientists thought that phlogiston was an element contained in combustible bodies, did they have knowledge of phlogiston, and if they did, was this true knowledge or false knowledge? Is it possible for a proposition to change its truth value over time or is it the case that what is true has always been and will always be true - though we may not know it.