Wittgenstein and Science

Posted on the 20 November 2013 by Calvinthedog

According to Ludwig Wittgenstein, nothing is really true, but it’s more the case that some things are more true and other things are less true.

Modern science operates on the principle that few things are actually true. Those things that are true are called “laws” of science. Everything else is a theory. So just about everything in science is a theory and not a proven fact. Tell that to the next moron who says such and such is not true – it’s “only a theory.” Everything’s a theory, you idiot! The best way to see this is that science doesn’t see much of anything as true; instead, everything is “true for now” or “true until proven otherwise,” or “true until possibly, at some time in the future, we prove that it is not true.”

Very humbling experience when you finally start to figure out that hardly anything is really 100% true.

Any comments on this philosophical BS?