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==<span id="changing"></span>Science is "always changing"== | ==<span id="changing"></span>Science is "always changing"== | ||
Science is sometimes criticised as "always changing". The idea is that if it needed to be corrected it must have been wrong; therefore as "ever-changing science", it is probably still wrong. Science, however, homes in on truth by ''constant'' correction and refinement: it approaches truth asymptotically. This is a powerful truth-seeking technique, seen, for example, in hill-climbing algorithms. The simple claim that science is "always wrong" is a misrepresentation. | Science is sometimes criticised as "always changing". The idea is that if it needed to be corrected it must have been wrong; therefore as "ever-changing science", it is probably still wrong. Science, however, homes in on truth by ''constant'' correction and refinement: it approaches truth asymptotically. This is a powerful truth-seeking technique, seen, for example, in hill-climbing algorithms. The simple claim that science is "always wrong" is a [[Unworthy Arguments#misrep|misrepresentation]]. | ||
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Science is "always changing"
Science is sometimes criticised as "always changing". The idea is that if it needed to be corrected it must have been wrong; therefore as "ever-changing science", it is probably still wrong. Science, however, homes in on truth by constant correction and refinement: it approaches truth asymptotically. This is a powerful truth-seeking technique, seen, for example, in hill-climbing algorithms. The simple claim that science is "always wrong" is a misrepresentation.
