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Logic shows to say science proves something is committing the fallacy of affirming the consequent. Science only disproves things by a series of systematic candidate elimination. When one finds support for a theory, it is a good inductive, probabilistic argument to say science shows this is "probably" the case.
Logic shows to say science proves something is committing the fallacy of affirming the consequent. Science only disproves things by a series of systematic candidate elimination. When one finds support for a theory, it is a good inductive, probabilistic argument to say science shows this is "probably" the case.
