mackinator3 t1_j6sjr6r wrote
Reply to comment by SvetlanaButosky in How to be a sceptic | We have an ethical responsibility to adopt a sceptical attitude to everything from philosophy and science to economics and history in the pursuit of a good life for ourselves and others. by IAI_Admin
Well, you can't know it's not possible.
It also doesn't mean everything is incomplete. You can still get lucky and have a complete theory, without knowing everything.
You are presenting such an absolutist argument against absolutism lol
bensonnd t1_j6sq9e1 wrote
OP doesn't seem to be talking about absolutism at all. They're talking about how the stuff we know, including the theories you mentioned, still have underlying probabilities (uncertainty) that we can look at and be almost entirely sure, but never 100%.
It's like determining a sphere's superposition. We can probabilistically determine where a sphere is at by analyzing it in the context of an infinite number of planes, but not the actual sphere itself. And we can extrapolate to the space around it to fill in the gaps between the sphere and its polyhedron representation. But by definition, that gap is uncertain. We can model the gap if it's that important, but it generally isn't. The representation is good enough.
mackinator3 t1_j6sqpl6 wrote
They explicitly says absolutist.
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