Facts may need to be revised as new data contradict or revise the findings on which they are based, but the process allows for self-correction and ever-closer approximations to truth.
And it bears no close approximation to the truth.
It is, in the present state of knowledge, the best approximation to the truth.
Where else should people turn for some rough approximation to the truth?
Though other outfits attempt similar work, the IFS stands apart: when it comes to economic policy, its assessments have, for many, become the closest approximation to revealed truth.
His auditors, Mr. Volcker said, "found as close an approximation to the truth as it's possible to find after all this time".
This step was necessary for progress to be made, and it was such a wonderfully accurate approximation to the truth for describing motions that are slow compared to the speed of light that it withstood all tests for more than two centuries.
Hence incommensurability is supposed to rule out convergent realism, the view that science shows ever improving approximation to the truth.
Of course, these values are based on a model parametrization, which is only an approximation to the truth.
Yet Gassendi's definitive criterion for any physical, metaphysical, or epistemological thesis is approximation to the truth, which is empirically-determined.
