• ianovic69@feddit.uk
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    10 months ago

    Hmm, then we could be talking past each other. I’m bridging the two as polar opposites but you say that’s not what you’re getting at?

    “objective fact” regarding previous events when you expand them past “this event happened” (I.e. this happened because xyz)

    Could you expand on this? Preferably with an example using something other than history, eg a reaction or a sum.

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      10 months ago

      Well no, I can’t. That’s because that snippet was in reference to non-reproducible things, like history really. Science is Queen of objectivity in that you can take the exact same steps and physics ensures that things happen again in the same way

      With history, it’s about interactions between complex, ever-changing human psychologies. It’s about decisions made that might not necessarily be restricted to laws like physics, but maybe what you had for breakfast that day, or what your first interaction with another human was like.

      Now technically, maybe one day in the future we could use physics and insane measurements of humans to predict behavior and what not like we can with say a chemical reaction, but that’s pretty far out and I’m not sure we’d want to do that (despot being driven to do it anyway because someone else will and they’ll use it for harm)