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Re:What’s so bad about Scientism? by smhost on Friday March 31, 2017 @04:47AM (#14002068)
Probably T <= 0, multiple universes, inside a black hole, etc. You also can't run an experiment on your own life, not really, since you only have one life and that's not a large enough sample. So questions like "what is true for you, uniquely?"
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Re:What’s so bad about Scientism? by Scea91 on Friday March 31, 2017 @05:55AM (#14002361)
Your life is definitely a large enough sample for experiments about you, since it covers the whole domain. No need to even use statistics.
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Re:What’s so bad about Scientism? by smhost on Friday March 31, 2017 @06:39AM (#14002530)
You can know scientific truths about parts of your life, but you can't know scientific truths about the whole of it.
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