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by jasonwatkinspdx 4601 days ago
An electron may in some abstract sense suffer that force 100% of the time, but that has no bearing on whether your specific measurement context has similar confidence.

Your argument is sophomoric. Read Popper, Jaynes, any number of other sources.

If your argument was true, science would be entirely true, uncontroversial, complete, and done. Clearly it is not. I wonder what is lacking here: the body of science, or your conception of scientific epistemology.

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> An electron may in some abstract sense suffer that force 100% of the time, but that has no bearing on whether your specific measurement context has similar confidence.

Of course not.

But because every electron is (according to our models) identical, we can get closer to eliminating the errors in the specific measurement context (with the exception of uncertainty principle and effects related to it, of course)

> If your argument was true, science would be entirely true, uncontroversial, complete, and done

I am not claiming that. And getting to the "end of science" of course may never happen.