• PunnyName@lemmy.world
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      26 days ago

      Exactly. I keep trying to get people to understand that it’s a process, just like running is a process.

    • Preußisch Blau@lemmy.ca
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      26 days ago

      Believing that science yields universally true results or is the only method of finding truths, however, is an ontology and something you have to believe.

      Edit: I’m not anti-science or anything, just a pedant.

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        25 days ago

        Believing that science yields universally true results or is the only method of finding truths

        You just described science as though it were a belief system. In reality, science has a presumption that your ideals are false, not true. And a person who could only discover truth through science wouldn’t be able to dress or feed themselves.

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      24 days ago

      Scientism is the belief that science and the scientific method are the best or only way to render truth about the world and reality.

      While the term was defined originally to mean “methods and attitudes typical of or attributed to natural scientists”, some scholars, as well as political and religious leaders, have also adopted it as a pejorative term with the meaning “an exaggerated trust in the efficacy of the methods of natural science applied to all areas of investigation (as in philosophy, the social sciences, and the humanities)”.