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Thread #164109   Message #3924793
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
15-May-18 - 08:41 PM
Thread Name: Catholic sexual abuse & climate denial
Subject: RE: Catholic sexual abuse & climate denial
If you don’t care what people believe why do you keep posting about it?

As I said, we have very different understandings of what the word "believe" means. I think it covers a much wider range than you do. Both absolute and provisional beliefs, objective and subjective beliefs, false beliefs, and true beliefs.

I'm confused by "there is no room for belief in the scientific method". Do you mean there can be no room for a conviction of certainty, and therefore that everything is in principle provisional? On the basis that the scientific method is traditionally founded on a permanent readiness to doubt - you come up with a hypothesis, and set about trying to disprove it.