https://twitter.com/MarioEmblem_2/status/1676009845235896320

  • a_blanqui_slate [none/use name, any]
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    1 year ago

    An additional thought... the history of science is essentially the history of finding objective facts, facts which are true regardless of perspective.

    I agree with basically everything you've said throughout your post, but I do want to emphasize that even this got thrown out the window in the mid-20th century with the work of Kuhn and Quine. Scientific realism is currently trying to mount something of a comeback, but some rather compelling work in history and philosophy of science says that the notion of objective facts needs to go out the window.

    • quarrk [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Interesting, I'll have to look into those authors you mentioned. I agree, there does seem to be a shift away from a clean separation of objective and subjective, toward a more refined attitude of true given these assumptions, i.e. an emphasis on the scope of validity for a given fact, and never believing for a second that we've found the absolute end of science, scoped out all of the hidden assumptions or miscategorizations we didn't realize we held.