Amor wrote: ↑Wed Jul 23, 2025 5:27 am
My own approach is that every belief is an hypothesis awaiting experiment
Yeah, but there are many levels of "belief" each with varying credibility, and not all "hypotheses" can be tested in exoteric ways yielding results of any substantial consensus unlike your run-of-the-mill scientific methods although when it comes to some 'fringe' areas of thought there are similar methods in fortification of any such "beliefs":
1. Similarities across models, concepts, and ideas.
2. Analogies and reflections observed external to the "belief" in question.
3. Extrapolation.
4. Brief to moderate essays, theses, and dissertations.
Obviously, the skill and "credibility" of any particular writer would be of importance here.
Terrence McKenna Land
And of course, there is a home,
where the Machine Elves roam,
and the deer and the antelope play
Where seldom is heard
any scientific word,
and the skies are all tie-dyed away