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... most efficient, easiest and fastest route to truth. Before deciding whether science is the best route to truth, the truth that science can offer has to be examined. As stated before science is inductive and based on the probability of a certain event occurring. When science proves an event or discovers a new phenomenon in falls into two out of the three categories of truth that being either coherent or pragmatic. It can be coherent because it has to be accepted by a group of people and it can be pragmatic because like quantum theory when it was introduced explained something but was rejected by many people because of what it predicted. So science can offer us truth that is certain but it cannot give or offer us absolute truth of the correspondent type. There is the possibility that a scientific truth can be exactly the same as a correspondent ...
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