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shrikant on Feb 25, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Isaac Asimov - The Relativity of Wrong (1989)

A common example with such people is how Newton's theory was "wrong" and Einstein's theory "corrected" it, clearly showing there's no absolute truth.

Mild epiphany on reading these (and surrounding) words: In the scientific method, there are truths, and truer truths.

ovi256 on Feb 25, 2010 [–]

No! Truth is absolute, wrong is relative. Asimov gives it away in the title. There are wrongs, and more wrong wrongs. We simply refine our knowledge to be less wrong and (maybe asymptotically) approach the truth.

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