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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
Does science necessarily assume anything about epistemology?

When doing science and talking about things such as truth, knowledge and the scientific method, what are the necessary assumptions we need to make/positions we we need take about epistemology? Does science itself need to "hold" any particular views on epistemology? What schools of thought/theories of epistemology are most/least "validating" regarding science?
gpt
That rather depends on what you think "science" is. The answers you'd get for this question if you're a scientific realist (a la many a STEMlord) are wildly different from those you'd get if you're a social constructivist (a la Latour & Woolgar). So unfortunately you'll have to choose a certain view of science before being able to figure out what sort of epistemic commitments (if any) "science" has.