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The question asked in this thread is indeed loaded and ultimately meaningless. Science is used to investigate the natural world, thus it requires the natural world to be real and regulated by internally consistent laws. It is indeed an a priori assumption. What gives the world these properties is up to philosophical debate.
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That's a circular argument. An unproven belief an individual has doesn't mean there is another source of truth. All it means is the person has a belief that can't be proven. It's morally wrong to claim an unproven belief is the truth for the simple fact that it can't (at that point). The person is being deceptive with others.
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Why are you saying that an unproven belief can't be true? Of course it can.
An unproven belief can be false or can be true. Being unproven does not make it automatically false.
E.g. gravity has always been true, it did not become true after being proven.
Surely not intentionally deceptive, if they really believe that something is true.
The source of truth is the universe itself, not science. Science is a tool of discovering it.
All beliefs used to be unproven at one or another point in time, and many are still unproven. But their logical value (true or false) was stable. They did not suddenly become true after being proven.
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Nope. This statement is still wrong.for the simple fact that it can't (at that point).
Scientific facts are stable. They cannot be false at one point and true at another point.
A still unproven fact is just as true as an already proven fact.
Science is not making things true. It is just researching whether things are true or not.
And scientific mistakes also happen. Science is not infallible.
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