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    Science is capable of providing truths about physical and natural phenomena that can be observed and experimented on. However, these truths are limited to what can be investigated through scientific methods like systematic observation and experimentation. While scientific theories aim to accurately describe material reality, they are continually revised and improved over time as new tools and knowledge advance our understanding of the natural world. Ultimately, science can only reach truths about the specific aspects of reality that are physical and quantifiable - it cannot penetrate or study immaterial or non-physical realities, which is the domain of philosophy instead.

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    Science is capable of providing truths about physical and natural phenomena that can be observed and experimented on. However, these truths are limited to what can be investigated through scientific methods like systematic observation and experimentation. While scientific theories aim to accurately describe material reality, they are continually revised and improved over time as new tools and knowledge advance our understanding of the natural world. Ultimately, science can only reach truths about the specific aspects of reality that are physical and quantifiable - it cannot penetrate or study immaterial or non-physical realities, which is the domain of philosophy instead.

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    Science is capable of providing truths about physical and natural phenomena that can be observed and experimented on. However, these truths are limited to what can be investigated through scientific methods like systematic observation and experimentation. While scientific theories aim to accurately describe material reality, they are continually revised and improved over time as new tools and knowledge advance our understanding of the natural world. Ultimately, science can only reach truths about the specific aspects of reality that are physical and quantifiable - it cannot penetrate or study immaterial or non-physical realities, which is the domain of philosophy instead.

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    Raymond Albert Ng, 11205369

    Mr. Victorino Raymundo Lualhati



    Does science give us truth?

    Yes, science is capable of giving us truths. However, these truths are
    limited: Science can only attain those truths that are within the scope of its
    method. And since science investigates reality by systematic observation
    and experimentation, it can only arrive at truths concerning that aspect of
    reality which is observable and may be subject to experimentation, namely,
    physical and natural phenomena.
    Science is progressively moving towards a true account of the physical
    realm. Scientific theories aim to provide genuine descriptions of material
    reality, or approximately so. In the course of the history of science, there
    inevitably occur revisions or replacements of theories, owing to
    advancements that surpass erstwhile limitations to what science could
    explore at the time. Thus regarding the truth of the notions that were
    superseded: their degree of conformity with reality was simply in keeping
    with the time, with its available tools and conceptsthough the objective
    reality itself that was studiedhence the truthdid not change with time.
    Science does attempt to give us truth, but always within its scope and
    limitations; it falls short when it does not have the means. In particular, we
    can contend that the limitation of science is in its measurement of reality,
    which in fact is its primary methodical activity. And with the developments
    throughout history, and modern ones, continuous verification of scientific
    facts by its repeated predictions and observations leads to more refinement
    in the understanding of natural phenomena, and comes up with
    progressively better explanations that more faithfully describe the reality
    observed. Accordingly, science can indeed reach certain truths about the
    natural world as it is.
    Lastly, with this we arrive at the further realization that the sciences
    deal with only specific aspects of reality, namely, physical reality. Being
    outside this scope, immaterial reality, that by its very nature is
    unquantifiable, cannot be penetrated into by mere scientific inquiry: Such
    study is properly philosophical. (The particular sciences investigate definite
    aspects of reality and their proximate causes: causes that do not go beyond
    that level; consequently they cannot deprive philosophy of its role in
    studying all of reality, in its deepest aspect, seeking its ultimate causes.)

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