scientific belief

by wpengine on March 5, 2009

Discuss this oxymoron in the comments below.

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  • JAC Science

    Scientific belief is an ackward but not invalid phrase. The true oxymoron is scientific proof, for the process of science can incrementally increase our confidence in a theory, but it can never prove it (see Popper, 1934). Thus to describe a current theory as a scientific belief is not untrue.

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