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RE: Intolerance and Censorship to Skeptics and Contrary Data or Conclusions

in Deep Dives4 years ago

Well something is proven right for the level of knowledge supported by observations about what it's trying to demonstrate. Then better observations/testing can prove it wrong, or off and not 100% accurate, but generally accurate, etc. Proving something wrong can even turn out to be wrong since it's also based on testing and observation. Strong evidence leads to a generalized conclusions of proof about something, but yes semantically it's often not "100% proof" since ya never know what else can be demonstrated/detected/measured at some later date.

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"Proving something wrong can even turn out to be wrong..."

My father maintains that he once thought he was wrong, but turned out to be wrong about that, so has been right all along. ;)