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Re:What’s so bad about Scientism? by daptaq on Friday March 31, 2017 @05:42AM (#14002304)
Founding all knowledge on the scientific method is just vulgar empiricism, and it's known to have it's limits, and philosophy isn't just "emotions", since science is part of philosophy itself (asking and answering questions about the world, Truth, etc.)

This comic shows the limits of empiricism nicely: http://existentialcomics.com/comic/132

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Re:What’s so bad about Scientism? by AstralStorm on Friday March 31, 2017 @01:07PM (#14005793)
Not true. Scientific method does accept axiomatic systems as long as properties of them are verifiable.

Axioms that can be empirically shown to be likely true or likely false.

Also it treasures smaller set of axioms rather than larger ones.

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