Recent content by Kanyo

My point isn't that I see the word "faith" as tied with religion, I just used religion as an example, in part because the argument "science is based on faith" is where I live most commonly used to preface a religious argument; consider it heading off a potential argument while still explaining...

Obviously observation is the cornerstone of science, along with inference as another and a conservative epistemology as the foundation. If you actually hold to the idea that science is based on a faith assumption, then you believe that literally everything is based on an assumption of faith...

"You have to take on faith that things which are demonstrably true are true"? Yeah, sure we could all be in the Matrix, or in the head of an autistic mental patient, or any number of other unfalsifiable pseudo-hypotheses. Thing is, with literally zero reason to think that's the case there is...