AI and cognitive psychology rant (getting more and more OT - tell me if I should shut up)

[John J. Lee]

"Rainer Deyke" <rainerd at eldwood.com> writes:

> Robin Becker wrote:
> > Your assertion that there is an objective reality requires proof as
> > well. Probably it cannot be proved, but must be made an axiom. The
> > scientific method requires falsifiability.
> 
> If the statement that there is an objective reality (or any other statement)
> can be objectively proven either way, then objective truth (and hence
> objective reality) exists.  If it cannot, then the statement that there is
> an objective reality is as true as any other statement, and requires no
> proof.

The justification of scientific knowledge doesn't require proof in the
usual sense of the word, so your statement seems ill-founded.  My
guess is that the concept of reality is a metaphysical one, though
(inevitably quoting from Deutsch again):

"The reliability of scientific reasoning is ... a new fact about
physical reality itself..."


John