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It's not that the humanities are too easy. The subject matter is impossibly convoluted. Unfortunately, this leads to a situation where the fields taken as a w

It's not that the humanities are too easy. The subject matter is impossibly convoluted. Unfortunately, this leads to a situation where the fields taken as a whole are incredibly not-rigorous. Very few of the conclusions seem to be justified, and few of the practitioners seem to be able to know how tell the difference.

jhanschoo 11y ago
In my opinion, the humanities, despite being around for longer than STEM, are still nascent. The tools and models and perspectives we use today are still too inexpressive to solve problems beyond special cases, and we still have a hard time figuring out the boundaries of these special cases themselves. The systems that the humanities investigate are much more non-linear and complex than the systems STEM investigates, and so the conclusions are much less reliable.