What is true? What is science? - Letters to the Editor

As the gap (at the least) remains wide between "science" and "humanities" per C.P. Snow's old division, I've been hit often by thinkers with the idea that everyone's idea/approach to a subject is equally valid--which I don't believe. It's true that in many fields problems remain. For instance, in the study of legends of the past, it may well be that sometimes "plausibility" may be all that can be said of certain approaches. But we still are not quite in a "night in which all cats are gray," as a scholar wrote many decades ago....

Hugh H. Trotti

Decatur, Georgia

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