{"id":1693,"date":"2008-10-15T14:18:57","date_gmt":"2008-10-15T12:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=1693"},"modified":"2008-10-15T14:18:57","modified_gmt":"2008-10-15T12:18:57","slug":"munchhausen-trilemma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2008\/10\/munchhausen-trilemma\/","title":{"rendered":"M&uuml;nchhausen Trilemma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/gut.bmj.com\/cgi\/content\/full\/57\/8\/1179\">scintillatingly witty reply<\/a> to one of my recent letters say that<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The wonderful characteristic of science, unlike religion, dogma and faith, is that hypotheses can be tested. Prospective studies are needed to understand causal relationships and to help ascertain intermediate mechanisms. We are continuing to test the hypothesis that H pylori protects against childhood asthma and related allergic disorders.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>while I can offer here only a dry link to a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/M%C3%BCnchhausen_Trilemma\">trilemma article<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\ndissent &#8211; The uncertainty of the rules of common life, and of the opinions of philosophers<br \/>\nProgress ad infinitum &#8211; All proof requires some further proof, and so on to infinity<br \/>\nRelation &#8211; All things are changed as their relations become changed, or, as we look upon them from different points of view<br \/>\nAssumption &#8211; The truth asserted is merely an hypothesis<br \/>\nCircularity &#8211; The truth asserted involves a vicious circle (see regress argument)\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>or in more tangible terms: I am looking forward to a trial where H pylori is repeatedly eradicated in newborns, why not?<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 11.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A scintillatingly witty reply to one of my recent letters say that &nbsp; CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 11.04.2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2156,2167,83,2155,2161,2154,2157,2164,2163,2152,1826,298,2166,2168,2162,2165,2159,2158,2153,2160],"class_list":["post-1693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asthma-allergy","tag-allergic-disorders","tag-assumption","tag-asthma","tag-causal-relationships","tag-characteristic-of-science","tag-childhood-asthma","tag-circularity","tag-dissent","tag-dogma","tag-h-pylori","tag-hypotheses","tag-hypothesis","tag-infinity","tag-mechanisms","tag-newborns","tag-philosophers","tag-prospective-studies","tag-scholasticism","tag-tangible-terms","tag-vicious-circle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}