I agree it’s very Popperian, but I purposefully shied away from mentioning anything “science” related since that seemed to be a source of conflict; this person specifically thinks that science is just something that people with lab coats do and is part of a large materialist conspiracy to reject morality. But leaving any “science-y” words out of it and relying on axioms of probability theory, he rejoined with something along the lines of “real life isn’t a probability game”. I kinda just threw up my hands at that point, telling myself that the inferential distance is too large to cross.
I agree it’s very Popperian, but I purposefully shied away from mentioning anything “science” related since that seemed to be a source of conflict; this person specifically thinks that science is just something that people with lab coats do and is part of a large materialist conspiracy to reject morality. But leaving any “science-y” words out of it and relying on axioms of probability theory, he rejoined with something along the lines of “real life isn’t a probability game”. I kinda just threw up my hands at that point, telling myself that the inferential distance is too large to cross.