Science most certainly has a philosophical foundation. It's an epistemological theory regarding how you attain truth, etc.
Science (or philosophy for that matter) never makes truth statements. Only religion (and only a certain kind of religion) is conceited enough to treat statements it makes at the same level as truth itself. I've never heard science described as an epistemological theory. What exactly does this theory state?
There's a reason physics was originally called "natural philosophy."
And okay, let me clarify and use my terms correctly: science makes claims of knowledge (which is pretty much redundant, seeing as how "science" means "knowledge" in Latin), where "knowledge" is defined as, "justified true belief." Science claims something to known, when it can be reproduced by other persons, following the same procedures. I would also make a distinction between Truth, and truth. It is true that F = MA, becuase anytime anyone has ever done the math, the experiments, etc, they get the result that f = MA. This is a model, a model describing behavior, and it's one that can be used.
Perhaps just as importantly, science can tell us what is not true. It's often negative. If an hypothesis is put forward, and the data and results to not match the hypothesis, that hypothesis is wrong.
Now, I agree, science is inherently skeptical, and proper science doesn't assume anything it's discovered to be infallible - indeed, for something to be science, in must be falsifiable, at least in theory. That is, it's possible to run tests to ascertain if a hypothesis is an accurate description of what happens. It's theoretically possible to run the tests, and have force equal something other than mass times acceleration, even though no one has ever, ever done so (and there's thousands of physics students doing this test every year).
But it is quite obvious that science makes a claim towards knowledge, and for something to be called knowledge, it must relate to the truth. You cant know something, when it's false, can you?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_methodThere are basic assumptions derived from philosophy that form the base of the scientific method - namely, that reality is objective and consistent, that humans have the capacity to perceive reality accurately, and that rational explanations exist for elements of the real world.
Just made me chuckle coming from an agnostic science nerd.
You are aware that I'm making the same claims, as a similiar person, in this thread?