Snowyowl comments on Frugality and working from finite data - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Snowyowl 03 September 2010 09:07:22PM *  2 points [-]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_method

I think your third idea is right: science cannot be used to justify its own fundamental principles. For one thing, that argument would be very circular.