Re: How Do We Know?

On Sat, 27 Apr 2024 17:57:20 -0400, in talk.politics.guns Anonymous
<anon@anon.net> wrote:

X, formerly known as "!Jones" wrote:

Definition:
A *finder of fact* shall be defined as an impartial panel of one or
more persons designated by the legislative process and sworn under
oath of office to appraise and publish as a public record the facts
underlying a particular event or legal matter.  A finder of fact
employs the scientific method

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...which is incapable of being the sole arbiter of truth. Even when
used properly, it can't even produce consistent scientific evidence.

Over simplifying a bit: The scientific method of hypothesis testing
means assuming the hypothesis is false, then working to reject that
assumption.  It is the basis for scientific thought and our legal
system.

But, I would point out that I was discussing: *finder of fact*.  I
never even mentioned: "sole arbiter of truth".  A finder of fact
actually creates the fact.  For example, when a judge rules a person
guilty, at that second, the person changes from being innocent into a
convicted criminal.  When a medical examiner records a time of death,
that *is* the person's instant of death even though medical science
documents that death almost never occurred thus.

I assume that a "sole arbiter of truth" is theological and, for the
purpose of this essay, I care naught for theology.

May God bless and keep you, my child.