First published at 05:11 UTC on December 4th, 2022.
Our culture is saturated in scientism. Scientism comes in various forms. One is the belief that all knowledge is scientific — which is a proposition that is itself not scientific, and therefore self-refuting. Which is to say, it is false.
That emba…
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Our culture is saturated in scientism. Scientism comes in various forms. One is the belief that all knowledge is scientific — which is a proposition that is itself not scientific, and therefore self-refuting. Which is to say, it is false.
That embarrassing correction has been pointed out many times. There’s more to say about it, but we’ll leave it for another time.
The proposition still fails if we swap most for all. Putting knowledge—provable truths only and not likelihoods—on the scale, science on one side, and all other knowledge on the other, science loses the battle, too. Which I take to be obvious, given science deals more in probabilities than necessary truths.
our next example, the worst form of scientism.
A collection (a.k.a. a hubris) of researchers, ...
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