Re: Perfect State of Knowledge

["Vic Forte" <vic@vicf.com>]

> My question for DENizens: Is "perfect state of knowledge" possible, or
> is it nothing more than an idea that can never be?


"Gold is soluble in hydrochloric acid" is a scientific statement - even
though it is false. Whereas "People have Souls" - is not a scientific
statement even though it may be true.

What makes a statement scientific is that it is capable of being disproved.

Therefore there can never be a perfect end state of knowledge as far a
science is concerned. There is only the best hypothesis that we have so far,
waiting to be disproved.

For more on this, please refer to the Karl Popper web site

http://www.eeng.dcu.ie/~tkpw/