It's interesting to see the philosophical and connotative interpretations of "scientific truth" as I do my typical research for my site. And then this vs. "scientific fact" really spices things up. Prima facie scientific truth resounds objectivity like scientific fact does. But even fact, at least for me, has an immediate implication of an organon applied to establish . In our world today, and has been for some time, that's the Scientific Method. The Scientific Method adheres to reason and observation, especially observation. Plus experimentation, which is fundamental for empirical science. What goes through this rigorous method and is shown to happen over and over and done in the right parameters for its proof is "scientific fact". What about truth? What's scientific truth? To be continued...
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Scientific fact and truth are synonymous for the same thing, namely: actuality. However, if a distinction was made, perhaps one could say that from the scientific fact you have a truth the same as one may from the principle when dealing with things moral in nature.