/lit/ - Literature

>>6471803
Aristotle defined philosophy as encompassing five subjects. Metaphysics, Epistemology, Ethics, Politics, and Aesthetics. So unless this person is going to say that the study of methodology, semantics, logic, fundamental axioms, reasoning itself, morality, virtue, good conduct in general, the entire field of political analysis and theory, and all of art is useless, or worse, try and say that any of those fit under 'science' by anything but the most tenuous of definitions, he can just shut the fuck up.

The scientific method, induction, and empiricism only 'works' at all because it sits on a massive logical philosophical underpinning which, if removed, makes the entire method stop making sense. Nevermind that half the terms he uses in his arguments and inductions are socially/linguistically constructed, meaning errors in thinking ABOUND in self-described scientists purely because they don't understand their own terms [Aquinas and Confucius spit at you].

I get so tired of unphilosophical lay scientists/pop scientists making stupid statements like

"Science has disproved God"
>I'm an atheist and this one still gets to me

"Everything is material and therefore worthless/meaningless"

"Science has proven there's no such thing as morals"

And all the other pieces of nihilistic bullshit that has emerged NOT because of materialist natural science [which I myself believe in], but because of stupid motherfuckers not analyzing the logical underpinning of what they're doing. Honestly if these technology-worshipping bozos go on too much longer they'll basically degenerate from men of science into full blown wizards, seeking power not truth in their studies of the universe, and never actually understanding WHY or WHAT something is and works, but only HOW to get something to behave how they want it to.

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