Yogi Jaeger on Nostr: (3) Beyond certainty: Scientific knowledge is not certain, but it should be robust - ...

(3) Beyond certainty:

Scientific knowledge is not certain, but it should be robust - discoverable or describable in many independent ways. It should also enable coherent action in a given situation.

This way, we can still judge the relative merit of a scientific idea, even if we cannot establish it as fact beyond doubt.

This leads to a Babylonian model of knowledge: richly networked robust nodes, rather than a single fundamental level to which everything can be reduced.