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you missed something important > dogmatic belief in the supremacy of rationalism and materialism good science absolutely must take a rationalist and materiali
by metaphorm 10y ago
you 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.