forum for week of 28 November: pragmatism

I would have to tend to agree with the first statement. I think the scientific process lends itself very well to idea of "convenient truths". It would be crazy to say that all of science as we know it now is either all true or all false. There will always be new discoveries that will morph our current understanding. Even seemingly trivial advances like increasing microscopic magnification is sometimes enough to lead to many new theories in the biology. If scientific truths can be seen as "convenient truths" I feel that social norms would be even easier to prove to be dependent on something other than an absolute truth.