What if all our theories are incorrect and reasons that we could ?

Question

never understand are the real reason for the things we try to explain, how would we know and what is being done to try and find this out,. is that what philosophy is really about?

Answer 1

Very basically, yes

Answer 2

You are absolutely correct. To find the answers to the true meaning of science and to life, you must develop, advance, a mathematical perspective; you must use those math skills in understanding both classical physics and quantum physics (particle, cosmology, and theoretical).

Physics is the most basic root of all the other sciences. I firmly believe that no one can fully understand the full range and scope of science without at least a passing knowledge of classical and quantum physics, in my opinion.

The world and universe as we currently know and experience them, are but illusions of their true underlying nature.

Answer 3

Philosophers all through time have hypothesized that the world as we experience it is not the true reality. Other more pragmatic sorts have accepted the world as given and concentrated on explaining how we perceive and interact with it.

From a scientific standpoint, it doesn't matter all that much. As long as the theories can predict what happens (or appears to happen), and be used to create working technologies, they are correct in terms of life as we live it. Science is concerned with observations and mathematical models, not with the ultimate nature of things.  What would it mean to you if I could prove that your computer wasn't real?

Answer 4

Scientific progress requires the assumption that our theories are always in some way incorrect.  We claim a movement towards truth, not Truth-with-a-capital-T.

Isaac Asimov said something along the lines of: "People once thought the world was flat.  Then they thought it was a perfect sphere.  Now we say it has a bulge at the equator.  Both the people who thought it was flat and the people who thought it was a perfect sphere were wrong, but if you think they're both 'just as wrong' as the other, then you're more wrong than both of them."

Science is self-correcting.  It a theory does not match observations, it will get refined or thrown out.  Thus we are always, to the best we know, correct.  Keywords - 'to the best we know'.  We can speculate about other possible explanations, but without the evidence to support it, it's only speculation.

"The difference between a physicist and a philosopher is the philosopher has no laboratory to test the validity of his ideas." - Robert Wood

Answer 5

we probably won't know if we're ever really truly right, but "at our current level of ignorance, this is what we understand to be true..."

"we" are always improving upon our theories, e.g., geocentrism, with the help of new technologies and global collaborations.

Answer 6

i am not to sure what philosphy is exactly about

but there is a point in what you say....reasons we never understand can sometimes be the real reasons....