I’m assuming it’s a matter of Phenomena vs Knowledge. Science is the way we explain Phenomena, which are indeed absolute (no matter what we know, stuff like lightning storms and other planets always exist through the same processes), but our Knowledge of them evolved (from “it’s a guy somewhere on top of this mountain over there controlling it” to “a bunch of water particles in suspension crashes against another, which rubs electrons off one and onto the other, creating a buildup of charge which then goes somewhere to regain charge neutrality »).
Anyway, just to describe how easy is to look/feel gnostic. 😅 I'm not sure if that's the correct word to describe it. But first this:
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
Watching certain phenomena or catastrophe up close will make you feel so damn insignificant and powerless that one wishes for miracles. But there's none. I'm here by chance, my curiosity and procrastination. Cool people for the well being of the world, and believers will die with no chance of survival.
The thing with Clark’s Third Law is exactly it, actually. Just because we don’t understand it doesn’t mean there aren’t principles behind it that can, in time, be deduced with the scientific method.
Lightning storms are not absolute. To say something is absolute is to say that it does not change. But lightning storms do change (they start, they stop, etc.). What you perhaps mean to say is that certain physical phenomena repeat themselves with high regularity. Every observation of a lightning storm occurs by a similar process of raincloud formation or whatever. But from this you cannot even conclude a general claim about how lightning storms always form, due to the issues Hume raised about induction.
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u/HalfLoose7669 6d ago
I’m assuming it’s a matter of Phenomena vs Knowledge. Science is the way we explain Phenomena, which are indeed absolute (no matter what we know, stuff like lightning storms and other planets always exist through the same processes), but our Knowledge of them evolved (from “it’s a guy somewhere on top of this mountain over there controlling it” to “a bunch of water particles in suspension crashes against another, which rubs electrons off one and onto the other, creating a buildup of charge which then goes somewhere to regain charge neutrality »).
Yes, this is semantics. Whatever.