This is mostly about definitions, but I pers. don't see why that shouldn't be called science. If your ideas are falsifiable, it's science.
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Replying to @JCMaas
They're not falsifiable & making them so is not the point. One of my professors & her husband is making a database of phrases in manuscripts
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Replying to @HPluckrose @JCMaas
Then people will be able to search and find how commonly things were being talked about. Much more data at our fingertips.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @JCMaas
That's science. I'm more interested in pulling out attitudes and making convincing arguments about their influences & significance.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Those arguments can be convincing because based on something. They can be wrong. If they can't be, its pseudoscience. Else, science.
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Replying to @JCMaas
Yes, if we define science as addressing any argument which can be right or wrong but I feel this misses the essence.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @JCMaas
I say 'like Monica of Hippo coz A.B,C!' Someone else says 'But also dissimilar coz X,. More similarity with English saints coz Y, Z.'
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Replying to @HPluckrose @JCMaas
And we discuss this & agree or disagree & the exploration is the point & anyone trying to add up similarities & differences misses it.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @JCMaas
The aim is simply different. Different ways of looking at things. Coming from different angles. This is what is interesting.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @JCMaas
PoMo goes too far by insisting that reality is constructed by these different angles & perceptions & that there is no truth.
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I'd say there is one &science is the method for getting at it. Humanities more for exploring perceptions which are interesting in themselves
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