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The idea that there is a Book of the Word containing all the world’s facts, and that science is the way to discover the contents of that book, dates back to Galileo. That belief, that reality can be exhaustively described by science, has gone hand in hand with the belief that the world contains only physical things. But as a famous 20th century philosophy thought experiment by Frank Jackson demonstrated, some facts about the world can’t be discovered by reading books. But unlike what Jackson thought, this doesn’t show that the world isn’t physical, but that not all facts about the world can be stated by science, argues Tim Crane.

Science can't state all the facts | Tim Crane >> IAI TV 0 --> APA Crane, T. (2022, January 17). Science can't state all the facts. IAI News . https://iai.tv/articles/science-cant-state-all-the-facts-auid-2027 MLA Crane, Tim. "Science can't state all the facts." IAI News , 17 January 2022. https://iai.tv/articles/science-cant-state-all-the-facts-auid-2027 Copy link Email Facebook X Bluesky LinkedIn Science can't state all the facts The book of the world is a fantasy 17th January 2022 cite Tim Crane | Professor of Philosophy at Central European University, specialising in p

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