Science = Testimony and Testimony = Testifiablity. @Plinz, And behind that is th

Science = Testimony and Testimony = Testifiablity.
@Plinz,
And behind that is that testimony, expanded from ancient ‘courts’ was generalized to intellectual sphere, because discretionary rule was prohibited, so arguments between the military aristocracy had to be made decidable.And that decidability was necessary because each member, requiring wealth of a n extended family or clan for heavy arms, could remains soverign, and military epoistemology is unforgiving.

There is or at least under the common adversarial law before the jury, there was, little difference between on teh battlefield, words in court, words in trade, words in ‘proper society’, and eventually words in church.

As a thought experiment, what would happen if all sanctioned papers where the research was the recipient of public funding directly or indirectly, were held to testifiability – and perjury otehrwise? 😉

Cheers
CD

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