There is a whole branch of philosophy that deal with the nature of science this is generally named as epistemology....
Knowlege is not science as knowledge as no obvious relationship with truth. For instance you can know a lot about conspiracy theories or religion (I don't mean to hurt anybody.) even if they are false. But science research truth.
Most advanced views about science will conclude that :
"Science simply whatever is generally regarded as true these days by most experts"
With a minus, that is methodology. (I don't feel to explain more here it's to late and to much work for me to be understandable about this in English)
In the previous sentence you can replace science with truth that works. What can we conclude.... that truth doesn't exist it's just an aim.
A lot of people will jump to the conclusion that I have written that facts didn't exists. That's wrong, facts exists and the search of truth shoud rely on facts .
I don't know why I write this here, but they could be a lot a of good articles about think kind of subject.
As we are lacking some good lawyers in Wikipedia contributor we may also lack some good philosophers.
Ericd
----- Original Message ----- From: "Rotem Dan" rotem_dan@yahoo.com To: wikien-l@wikipedia.org Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2003 9:54 PM Subject: [WikiEN-l] Larry's text on the "Knowledge" article
Just stumbled upon the "Knowledge" article, and was hit by shock and amazement:
"You come to a gas station and the gas station attendant tells you: "I just heard from someone that there was a big accident just around the big curve on State Route 99. .."
"So let's get down to business, and ask: What is knowledge? How can I define the word or the concept, 'knowledge'?"
"In other words, by the word "knowledge," we don't mean simply whatever is generally regarded as true these days by most experts"
In other words, a western-americo-centric-article-written-solely-in- the-point-of-view-an-almost-obscure-philosopher.. (If this sounds like trolling, then I apologize, I am pretty angry right now.. :| )
With all the respect for wikipedia's founders, please do not allow these tribute pages on wikipedia. You-state-yourself-that-wikipedia-is-an-encyclopedia-,not an-"Ideapedia"-or-tribute-shrine-for-your-beloved-favorite- philosopher. (Again apologizing for the trolling attitude)
Please consider leaving these type of texts as cites, or book references (drived by the usual wiki-consensus).
Rotem
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