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> if you could fit foucault into that box, he would no longer be foucault, yes? Just another piece of science. This grossly misunderstands science. If you thin
by derleth 14y ago
> if you could fit foucault into that box, he would no longer be foucault, yes? Just another piece of science.
This grossly misunderstands science. If you think science is just everything we can fit in a box you've missed the past few centuries and still think everything is ultimately down to which religious leader has the most followers who haven't died of religion yet.
If you demand pithy quotes, here's one: Science is the process by which we gradually learn to stop fooling ourselves about things.
Remember, asking why the sun rises in the East was once a moral and philosophical question.
- pradocchia 14y ago> If you think science is just everything we can fit in a box... no, I don't. you misunderstand. willfully? or just hubris? box == frame of reference == paradigm == system of thought == set of axioms, habits, etc, that fit together into a semi-cohesive whole. you may, or course, not be able to perceive the box as a box, and invert the negative space into something substantial. that is, you may not be smart enough to understand, to avoid the wrong questions.
- derleth 14y ago> box == frame of reference == paradigm == system of thought == set of axioms, habits, etc, that fit together into a semi-cohesive whole. Science is the process of changing boxes based on new evidence, without being constrained by preconceptions.