The odd opening

In this paragraph I was trying to show the necessity for action upon scientific theory, as opposed to it just being discovered and then not put into practice. I felt this needed addressing as the question assumes action based on scientific theory and I wanted to explore why

The Hume slip up

I was under the impression that Hume was a strict empiricist and disagreed with any use of reason in discovery of cause and effect. it is for this reason that i labelled it as a cardinal sin to hume, in the context of its use in.

Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them

Verification methods

i made a mistake here with the types of statements under verificationism here. In a-level we focused on methods of verification, of which there are 3: analytic, synthetic and mathematical

Lack of Popperian approach

I chose not to write about popper in this essay because i felt that a dismantling of the idea of an absolute actionable truth via hume and the meaningfulness of scientific statements