Science

[Justin Schwartz]

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>The earth was not flat when scientists thought it was, it was round. The
>consensus caught up with the truth of the matter, it did not create it.

Of course I agree with this. But the reason we have to believe, most of us, 
that the earth is round, is that that's these cientific consensus; and it's 
the consensus that makes for, indeed constitutes, scienmtific respectbility. 
I am a scientific realist of a rather strong sort, but I am a pragmatist in 
epistemolofy.

--jks
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