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    pood replied to the thread Philosophy Of Science.
    Professor Norman Swartz on metaphysics:
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    No, they do not. And look! You just defined it! But the definition in insufficient, for the same reason that attempts to...
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    pood replied to the thread Philosophy Of Science.
    More from Against Method, and PLEASE NOTE that I am not necessarily endorsing these views, but just offering them as fodder for discussion:
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    pood replied to the thread Philosophy Of Science.
    From Against Method:
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    pood replied to the thread Philosophy Of Science.
    From the intro to Against Method:
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    pood replied to the thread Philosophy Of Science.
    Sure, all of the above is fine, but the point remains that we should not rule out edge ideas as false because they cannot be true, and...
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    pood replied to the thread Philosophy Of Science.
    I propose an iidb book club in which we start with Feyerabend’s Against Method, and then proceed to Cormac McCarthy’s novel Blood...
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    pood replied to the thread Philosophy Of Science.
    Critics can critique a play without being actors or directors. As a matter of fact, though, some philosophers are scientists, and some...
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    I guess I have my opinion on this but there likely is not a rigorous definition of the so-called “scientific method”. But there are...
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    pood replied to the thread Philosophy Of Science.
    Against Method
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    I deleted my post but what I was thinking was not so much the products of science but the process itself. People who are undergoing...
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    pood replied to the thread Philosophy Of Science.
    Well, but this goes to the alleged “scientific method.” is there actually such a thing, or just a series of methodologies with fuzzy...
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    Doing a little research, I find that fresh-squeezed orange juice is somewhat high in sugar, but has no added sugar, and also, as...
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    pood replied to the thread Philosophy Of Science.
    I think the main point is that “pseudoscience” (fake science) serves as primarily a rhetorical bludgeon in the same way that “fake news”...
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    pood replied to the thread Philosophy Of Science.
    What would that well-defined meaning be? Basically the word means “fake science,” but it has been indiscriminately applied to science...
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