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Originally Posted by CraigS
Garbage ! … sorry Brian, but pure garbage !
See Deductive Reasoning, Inductive Reasoning, Theorem , Axiomatic Systems, Formal and Informal Proof, Proof theory, Mathematical Logic … it all underpins why we don't need to invoke 'belief'.
Check it all out .. they're all on Wiki !!
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You are missing the point here Craig, and it is not garbage it is simply the truth.
Whitehead showed to the world that 1+1= 2. Those who take the time to check his work repeat his procedure come out with the same result and wamb bamb thank you mam you got science... no invocation of the much hated 'belief' needed.
However people such as myself who do not have the skills or people with the skills who choose not to use them, must accept his work or not, based on someone else's understanding of the validity of his work.
No wamb no bamb no thank you mam and no repetition of the procedures and no verifiable results and no science. This takes our understanding of his work out of the realm of science and into the realm of trust in some one else's understanding of his work.
You can call that trust anything you want but it is not knowledge.
Brian
PS, I am often wrong but I do not do garbage.
B