"To defend the truth, to articulate it with humility and conviction, and to bear witness to it in life are therefore exacting and indispensable forms of charity."

H. H. Benedict XVI. Caritas in Veritate Encyclical. June 29, 2009

Thursday, March 21, 2013

Apodicticity of theories

A theory, if correctly constructed from a logical viewpoint, can be useful or useless, but never empirically wrong. The test on a theory is exclusively on its logical correctness on the one hand, and on a useful identification of parts of the reality with concepts of the theory.
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