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Being an Absolute Skeptic -- Miller 284 (5420): 1625 -- Science (2114 words) |
 | For their part, philosophers may be hardly less nettled when scientists claim for science, and for scientific knowledge, an intellectual authority that for more than 250 years has been known to be logically untenable. |
| The results of science are not certain, it is agreed, but they come close; they are not irrevocably proved by observation and experiment--that asks too much--but they are overwhelmingly supported by observation and experiment. |
| Where the relativist who diminishes science and the justificationist who magnifies it are prone to agree is in supposing that skepticism and relativism come to much the same thing: that to deny that science is justified is to deny that it can tell the truth. |
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