Originally posted by starshipeleven
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By the way, truths, in the sense of absolute truths, would obviously be atemporal (which is practically equivalent to, albeit not the same as, eternal), while scientific theories change. That, along with the fact that science is based on assumptions, should be enough for anyone to notice that science doesn't yield absolute truths, which is what I first said.
Now, the course of philosophy in the last hundred years (approximately) has lead to the general consensus that it is not possible to set out to know without assumptions or to get rid of them, and that many assumptions are not chosen or that one is not even aware of them (our biology and culture being the most studied). Thus, if «truth» meant «absolute truth», there wouldn't be any truths. Philosophers, especially English and American ones of the analytic branch, dislike that, and have fiercely tried to redefine «truth» to mean something that's related to the traditional concept of truth and possible for us to achieve. This I dislike and in turn combat in troll nests such as these forums against the worst kind of ignorant: the pedantic. Such is life.
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