• Question: Can you tell me about the Münchhausen trilemma please.

    Asked by lkee to Nick, Jane, Iain, Chris, Anna on 11 Mar 2014.
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      Anna Middleton answered on 11 Mar 2014:

      @ikee this isn’t something I discuss daily. Wikipedia tells me its: “a philosophical term coined to stress the purported impossibility to prove any truth even in the fields of logic and mathematics” but then again I don’t believe everything I read on Wikipedia!

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      Iain Moal answered on 11 Mar 2014:

      This is one of the philosophical arguments that is given to show that is it impossible to know anything for sure. It has absolutely no bearing on science, because we need not know anything for sure 100%. Science always deals with uncertainties, and thats fine.

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