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[The Night Mammoth]

memorysquid wrote...

The Night Mammoth wrote...


Except we do, because when people don't see the same color they have a proven defect. 

But this is a massive tangent. 

It isn't a defect; it is just different.  

It's a defect. A mutation that causes something to go wrong. 

They interpret data differently than some; there is no uber-perspective from which to compare and call one view more veridical than another.

Which is a different point. Color blindness is related to a physical perspective, not what various people have been talking about. 

[Any0day]

Stornskar wrote...

I can't tell if people are slapping together words that sound scientific and hoping they make a congruent statement or what. Let's get grounded in reality here - I have a statement that is 100% factual:

I exist

Lol... This has really gone off topic, and obviously you don't understand the point -- and it's really not my duty to explain it to you.

Humans find the concept of uncertainty to be a bit jarring. It's easy to spout out things like ''The sun is yellow! Look, everyone can see it!" and until recently we thought it was yellow. Turns out the sun is actually white. To be 100% certain about anything is to set yourself up for disappointment, and playing these silly word games doesn't address the actual issue.  It's easy to make a sweeping generalization when all the evidence points in a particular direction, it's easier for a human to think that way. 

The simple fact is that in english and mathematics there are absolutes, yes -- but mathematics and english are just language that exists to do one thing: explain and translate the nature of the universe in a interpretation we can understand, comprehend and manipulate. Don't mistake the actual syntax of the universe to be our mathematics though; because there have been many cases where math was proved wrong and changed due to it's inconsistances with how the universe actually operates.

Taking the newest feat, the discovery of the Higgs Boson as an example: we are 99.99999% sure that it exists. Everything in science is based on a confidence level because theres always a chance we could be wrong.