/lit/ - Literature

>>11367010
I hope you realize that identifying pseudoscience or what we call demarcation now as Popper said is philosophy. What you presented in that pic is philosophical doctrine. Accepting it and applying it makes it a science because it no longer has absolute freedom and reign like philosophy. The same as postmodernism is a philsophy that is applied to social constructionism and many feminists and other ideologists apply that to their scientific method. They are ideologists and so is positvism in this sense. The only way to distinguish is by paradigm and by your own sense of what is better, more useful which is philosophy again.

Philosophy is not a pseudoscience because it is not a science. It would be more appropriate to call science a method of philosophy. The tradition is split and natural philosophy is called science now. Science is a group of methods, ideas and procedures that works best and are most reliable for getting information about the world. All of science is based upon philosophical assumptions that can't be tested, proven or disproven. Science is a complex system of traditions of different methodologies and ideas shared in a group of scientists using tools to either understand the world or use the most useful models of the world. Philosophy is the ground for everything and it makes science possible. Without philosophy science will become dogma and lose its purpose like logical positivism did.

Nitpick all you want. Philosophy is not a science. Science is not unified one group or process. Everything is based upon abstract grounds of ideas that are untestable but are taken as true.