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So, if you restrict the domain of inquiry to the things that science best studies (causes and their origins) then science is the best to study it.

The point was that there are other domains.




> So, if you restrict the domain of inquiry to the things that science best studies (causes and their origins) then science is the best to study it.

I didn't restrict anything, I just pointed out that your analogy is irrelevant to the topic at hand. The topic of the discussion was what methods can be used to reliably obtain knowledge about the external world, and being aware of individual personal experience just isn't.

> The point was that there are other domains.

OK, so what other domains of knowledge about the external world are there?


> "OK, so what other domains of knowledge about the external world are there?"

How do you think we acquired knowledge before the scientific method was devised?




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