What’s so bad about Scientism?

Re:What’s so bad about Scientism? by icen on Friday March 31, 2017 @05:00AM (#14002119)

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).

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Re:What’s so bad about Scientism? by jamesrcole on Friday March 31, 2017 @06:20AM (#14002450)

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

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