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Ugh. I lost a long post. I really need to write my posts in word first.
1. Fact != Truth. There is always doubt.
2. Laws are not indisputable. There is always doubt and always the possibility of falsification no matter how small.
3. Theories in a scientific sense are not less than facts. They are different from facts. It is not ridiculous. Theories in a conversational, colloquial sense are less than facts, but I'm not talking about the colloquial definition.
4. The scientific method applied to the investigation of natural phenomena presumably leads to scientific knowledge. Yes?
5. There is a epistemological framework that supports the scientific method. In my reference to determinism, empiricism, and falsifiability, I was speaking to that framework.
6. Independent of our limited perception of the universe, there is an assumption of determinism in the effort to identify the underlying causes of phenomena in the physical universe.
6. You could employ the scientific method to investigate clothing preferences. Your decision to wear boxers versus briefs may not be scientific, but the investigation of the decision-making processes that underlies clothing choice may be. It's not an insult to scientists.
That's it for now.
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