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re: Conservatism doesn’t always equal Christianity
Posted on 3/4/21 at 6:40 pm to BiteMe2020
Posted on 3/4/21 at 6:40 pm to BiteMe2020
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But, he takes the people who described those experiments at their word, ergo, on authority.
Experiments and their results are what science is built on, not people's opinions.
There's no logical fallacy in looking at an experiment done by someone else, thinking that everything looks solid, and accepting the conclusions of said experiment.
To try and mash that into the same phrase as someone literally just quoting someone else is lazy and borderline dishonest.
This post was edited on 3/4/21 at 6:42 pm
Posted on 3/4/21 at 6:48 pm to Azkiger
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Experiments and their results are what science is built on, not people's opinions.
Reading a fact in a book you didn't observe doesn't make it opinion.
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There's no logical fallacy in looking at an experiment done by someone else, thinking that everything looks solid, and accepting the conclusions of said experiment.
To try and mash that into the same phrase as someone literally just quoting someone else is lazy and borderline dishonest.
It's a matter of how we know things.
There's no dishonesty there. If I read about a scientific experiment, I'm not necessarily converting the writing to opinion, nor am I saying that the statements written are false. Just that I choose to take the statements on their word, or not. Millions of scientific experiments are conducted each year, and you, nor I, conducted any of them, or very few of them. If you take them for fact - any of them - you're taking them on the word of someone else that they were done as described and produced the results described.
I'm just making a point that much of what we "know" we have actually taken for fact from someone we trust, not because we've observed it ourselves.
This post was edited on 3/4/21 at 6:50 pm
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