Scientific truths

There are many theories about truth. Scientific truth seems to fall into several of them.

It seems to fit with the coherence theory of truth, especially if you subscribe to Khun's paradigm idea. It also fits with consensus theory of truth, considering science is a institutionalized form of knowledge, with its authorities (experts), journals and peer review. Even the pragmatic theory of truth finds a foothold in scientific truth. There is Occam's razor, the aversion to ad hoc theories and the requirement for they theories to be ably to make measurable predictions.

The really interesting part is that scientific truth doesn't need the correspondence theory of truth, which is the one the comes most naturally. There is no need for the theory to actually correspond to the external world. If you had two theories that in different ways described something, and both were just as provable and stand up to all tests equally well. The one chosen would be the easier one, or the one that majority of the scientific community backs, or the one that fits into the prevailing paradigm. Which one actually corresponds to reality doesn't matter.