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TopicQuestion for the Atheists on the board.
ToukaOone
04/14/12 2:37:00 PM
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So... to correct that earlier Higgs-Boson::Theory Construct always exists, but its correspondence to reality does not have to hold. Is that true?

Using some previous terminology, I define truth as the map and reality as the territory. The further the map is from the territory, the less truthful a statement is. So saying a coinflip has a 50% chance of being heads or tails is a map with only one detail on it. As you add more detail, the probability shifts, and the statements become more truthful.

Hm, this sounds like it contradicts your previous notion that truth is constant across time.

Actually there is one reconciliation: At any ONE particular moment in time, given a set of information, that is what we call true. The fact that we can only guess 50% at the start is ALWAYS true, no matter what data we receive later on. Similarly, the old Newtonian laws were our best approximation to truth before we started discovering breakdowns to it, etc. Is that right?

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