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We need to broaden our epistemological horizons. The other day I was reading the wikipedia article on physical attractiveness; it is mostly a litany of controll
by astazangasta 11y ago
We need to broaden our epistemological horizons. The other day I was reading the wikipedia article on physical attractiveness; it is mostly a litany of controlled studies isolating various physical variables. This is rapidly becoming the only way we know how to think.
- gkya 11y ago> [... The scientific method] is rapidly becoming the only way we know how to think. And for better or worse, it's not a way to think, it's a way to know and prove.
- 0xdeadbeefbabe 11y agoCan fashion, politics, philosophy, or religion help scientists decide what to prove or what to know? Or is that also within the purview of science?
- gkya 11y agoScience is a method for getting to know the universe. Fashion and politics are unrelated. Philosophy, religion and science are the most common ways to acquire knowledge. In religion, the source is the myth. In philosophy, the source is the thought. When philosophy needed a method to get to know for better the nature, it begat science. Science produces raw data. Philosophy, or any other method of thinking for that matter, are to interpret what science collects. But paraphrasingly-quoting Socrates via Plato, in Alchibiades II 144a and 146-147, without the knowledge of the good from the bad, information otherwise is useless, and maybe pericolous. And, it's not established that Mathematics be a science, so, shall we dismiss it[1]? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics#Definitions_of_mathematics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics#Definitions_of_mat...