Just to say belief is rooted in something more personal than the observable/rational, and difficult for people to deviate from.
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Replying to @ChessTriplet @HPluckrose
So a secular belief (ie gender inequality) can come with baggage, despite being rooted in observation and reason.
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Replying to @ChessTriplet @HPluckrose
"Unsubstantiated" and "super natural" are not necessarily accompanying. Some beliefs are unfounded but not beyond the realm of..
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Replying to @ChessTriplet
Of course not. But that is how I understand religion to differ from other ideologies. Supernatural & a moral code.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
I see the distinction blurring. Is the uncritical real world application of bad social science a "supernatural" ritual?
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Replying to @ChessTriplet
No. No claims of anything outside the laws of physics or of a magical nature are made. Just faulty methodology & thinking.,
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Replying to @HPluckrose @ChessTriplet
I don't think it helps to blur the lines between claims of a magical nature & faulty thinking about a material world.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Certainly not in cases where bad methodology/thinking are to blame, but I've seen some papers with pretty bizarre hypotheses.
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Replying to @ChessTriplet
Absolutely but ppl do at least think they're talking abt the material world that exists in reality.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Postmodern philosophy seems to shrug off the distinction despite its secular grounding.
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Sometimes it makes claims about the supernatural but mostly it just talks abt perceptual woo.
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