Arguing About the Origins of Science

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by pepys • 4 years ago

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swayvil2• 4 years ago

Requiring that the model has a strong reference to the observed makes for good models.

I figure that's self-evident. Noticed by lots of people since forever.

I think that modern science is linked to technology. Powerful technology got science-dependent enough to make science worth doing (vs other epistemological technologies). So then science got popular (funded) and now we have a scientific social movement.

nvahalik3• 4 years ago

Modern science is divorced from real science. It's simply a new religion which has no basis for knowing anything. It claims to try to understand the real world but it has no basis for doing so. It assumes things which are truth in order to make claims which (surprise) cannot be "scientifically proven".

Much of what calls itself science and the truth it is claims cannot be proven, and can never be proven.

This is why I discard much of what calls itself science which attempts to explain anything that happened before recorded history. Why? Because it was never observed. If it was never observed, then at best you have guesses and at worst you are just making stuff up.

progre• 4 years ago

Vauge dismissals are easy to dish out. Care to give some examples?

swayvil2• 4 years ago

Well it's good for making machines. As for the rest, yes, less good.

Maursault• 4 years ago

Science is something in which all humans have always engaged. It is not necessarily rigorous science, but it is science nevertheless. Some 245,000ya, the first human that picked up a stone and threw it at a bird was performing science, and the bird itself in flight was also performing science. Many, many living things accumulate knowledge in the form of testable predictions, iow, a lot of things, all humans included, perform actual legitimate science. Whether or not these ordinary everyday scientific pursuits advance cumulative scientific knowledge is another question.

Arguing About the Origins of Science

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