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What's the alternative to rationalism and materialism? How can good science be practiced without rational reasoning and physical (i.e. material) evidence?
by joefourier 10y ago
What's the alternative to rationalism and materialism? How can good science be practiced without rational reasoning and physical (i.e. material) evidence?
- metaphorm 10y agoyou missed something important > dogmatic belief in the supremacy of rationalism and materialism good science absolutely must take a rationalist and materialist view. however, the needs of good science are not necessarily the supreme values which to make any and all decisions.
- michaelmrose 10y agoWhat else do you base decisions on?
- throwanem 10y agoLots of things! Because I'm not actually a practicing researcher. And the set of practicing researchers I've known is, perhaps not so oddly, disjoint with the set of dogmatic scientific positivists I've known. No one has a better grasp of the vast difference between ideal science and real science than someone who actually does science for a living.
- michaelmrose 10y agoCan you name some of those lots of things?
- pjc50 10y agoScience can tell you how things work and how to achieve particular results. It can't tell you what is important, because that's fundamentally a question of human values.