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[–] 95 points 10 months ago (9 children)

Science isn't an ontology, it's a method.

God, what no humanities does to a mf

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

    Scientism is the belief that science and the scientific method are the best or only way to render truth about the world and reality.

    While the term was defined originally to mean "methods and attitudes typical of or attributed to natural scientists", some scholars, as well as political and religious leaders, have also adopted it as a pejorative term with the meaning "an exaggerated trust in the efficacy of the methods of natural science applied to all areas of investigation (as in philosophy, the social sciences, and the humanities)".

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  • [–] 16 points 10 months ago* (3 children)

    Believing that science yields universally true results or is the only method of finding truths, however, is an ontology and something you have to believe.

    Edit: I'm not anti-science or anything, just a pedant.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago

    Believing that science yields universally true results or is the only method of finding truths

    You just described science as though it were a belief system. In reality, science has a presumption that your ideals are false, not true. And a person who could only discover truth through science wouldn't be able to dress or feed themselves.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    I agree with the second part of that sentence, but who would think that they discover universal truths or any truths at all? The whole premise of science is that we cannot verify anything or find any real truth. We can just show that anything else is much more unlikely to be true.

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