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Dr Jack
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10-08-2003 5:33 AM 		Reply to: Message 20 by Silent H
10-07-2003 7:53 PM

All Science makes metaphysical assumptions. Most obviously: there is an objective real world we can study.
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Not much of an assumption, but one none the less.
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10-08-2003 9:36 AM 		Reply to: Message 23 by sidelined
10-08-2003 9:21 AM

Hmm, no, I don't think so. Science, by it's very nature, is incapable of testing the assumption 'there is a real world we can study'. Thus it remains a metaphysical assumption.
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Hardly calls into question the validity of science though.
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