Science and Philosophy

This post was very good.

Yes, I agree. I have no difficulty seeing that as true. And I am one of the people who sometimes questions the role of truth in science.

Yes, I agree that’s much more of a question.

I would put it this way: Does reality dictate to us that there are electrons? Or do we build models of reality, and the electrons come from our models?

I think it is the second of those.

It isn’t a matter of wanting to criticize science. Rather, it is because I study human cognition and human consciousness. And to study those, we need to investigate the source of our ideas and our concepts. And we also need to investigate how we ascertain truth.

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