Comment by CharlieDigital

Comment by CharlieDigital 3 days ago

If you can't prove knowledge gained, would that not indicate that the pursuit was fruitless?

Regardless of your endpoint in that pursuit, you should have gained intermediate foundational knowledge along the way, even if you haven't arrived at your endpoint.

If you cannot show mastery of that intermediate knowledge, then any kind of journey for knowledge would have failed.

nicoburns 3 days ago

"if you can't prove something, then it isn't true" is an obvious logical fallacy.

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redwall_hp 3 days ago

Extraordinary claims requiring extraordinary evidence, however, is not. It's the foundation of the scientific method.
There's an obvious lack of logical rigor to jump from someone pointing that out to framing it as proving an untruth.
A is true if evidence B supports it ≠ A is only true if evidence B supports it.
But you can only claim A is true if B. Otherwise you're just blowing smoke around an unknown.

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