Terry Sampson
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Can anyone think of a claim/proposition/sentence that is believed to be true in mainstream science without evidence/justification for that claim/proposition/sentence?
- "Mainstream science" defined:
- "Mainstream science is scientific inquiry in an established field of study that does not depart significantly from orthodox theories. In the philosophy of science, mainstream science is an area of scientific endeavor that has left the process of becoming established. New areas of scientific endeavor still in the process of becoming established are generally labelled protoscience or fringe science. A definition of mainstream in terms of protoscience and fringe science can be understood from the following table:
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- By its standard practices of applying good scientific methods, mainstream is distinguished from pseudoscience as a demarcation problem and specific types of inquiry are debunked as junk science, cargo cult science, scientific misconduct, etc.
- Source: Mainstream - Wikipedia
- Evidentialism and Justified Belief, in the context of Religion
- 'Evidentialism’ refers to "the initially plausible position that a belief is justified only if 'it is proportioned to the evidence'. Evidentialism implies that it is not justified to have a full religious belief unless there is conclusive evidence for it.
- It follows that if the known arguments for there being a God, including any arguments from religious experience, are at best probable ones, no one would be justified in having full belief that there is a God." [Source: Forrest, Peter. (2009). "The epistemology of religion."]
- 'Evidentialism’ refers to "the initially plausible position that a belief is justified only if 'it is proportioned to the evidence'. Evidentialism implies that it is not justified to have a full religious belief unless there is conclusive evidence for it.
- My understanding is that "mainstream science" consists of information and/or knowledge which is supported, i.e. justified, by a proportionate amount of evidence greater than zero evidence.
- My question, again, is this: Can anyone think of a claim/proposition/sentence that is believed to be true in mainstream science without evidence/justification for that claim/proposition/sentence?
- NOTA BENE:
- Anyone who brings "the Flat Earth Theory" and/or "Creationism" into this thread goes onto my "Ignore" list and should be put on everyone else's too.
- Anyone who wants to nit-pick my words above and avoid answering my question and satisfying my curiosity can join the #1s on my "Ignore" list.
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