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| 3f70cbd | Stephen Jay Gould offered this practical compromise: "In science, 'fact' can only mean confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent."16" The key phrase is provisional assent. We can strive for objectivity; we cannot reach the shores of dispassionate observation. The problem is that to play according to the rules of scientific method, we must concede the possibility that we cannot know if one day contra.. | Robert A. Burton |