Which science majors have the fewest conservatives?

mathboy98
Wed, 16 Jun 2010 20:30:54 +0000

Many scientific theories/laws are based largely on the principles of logic;
and it cannot be said that it is impossible for all time that the principles of logic are false, for one example.



In fact, logic is a construct in a sense too. There are “laws” of logic which different individuals say we can reject and not reject. For instance, should we allow for the possibility that something can be true and not true at once, if it is for some reason not possible to intuit which option must be taken given our constraints?

The way I look at it, we arrive at meaningful results, namely some kind of understanding, when we specify what laws we’re working under. As to what is absolute fact, I can’t say so easily. In a sense, it really is what we define it to be, because it’s terminology. It is a question of philosophy to assess how successful the assignment of meaning to the terminology is, with regards to the human experience.