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Scientism
- jleyank 3y agoIf we consider anything that is observable as “scientific”, meaning tests could be constructed to understand whether it is reproducible and what might be its cause. Anything unobservable (ie, no direct or indirect effect or measurement) is “belief”. I don’t think it’s possible or appropriate to try and understand one of these using the tools of the other. Note that atomic scale or smaller effects might not be directly observable but the properties that result can be and the overall behaviour is amenable to modeling. And “politics” is neither of these things, although it uses the terminology and information from both when constructing arguments.