Re:What’s so bad about Scientism?
by jamesrcole on Friday March 31, 2017 @04:52AM
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The point is that it's not a hypothesis. Or, at least there are views about maths where it's not a hypothesis.
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So it's something that's not a scientific hypothesis, but is considered knowledge!
(Or, if as in the other comment chain, 1+1=2 is too obvious, you can take any sufficiently non-trivial theorem of your choosing).
Re:What’s so bad about Scientism?
by jamesrcole on Friday March 31, 2017 @06:20AM
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Under the view I'm describing any statement like that is a kind of definition, not something that is true or false.
You can investigate whether it is consistent with other definitions. I believe that doing so is empirical work, which I think is consistent with a broad notion of science