There's also the fact that all our claims may be based on flawed basic principles and we might be wrong. We can just acknowledge this and move on but many want to focus on it to unnecessary degrees and insist others do. Yeah, we may be brains in vats, etc. now let's move on.
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Yes, this is how I've put it too but in relation to postmodernism. The scientific approach assumes provisional nature of knowledge and continues to work on ways to find error, then gets on with discovering things. Pomos want to wallow in the fog of uncertainty & never move on.
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I know a few pomos and they'd describe themselves as realists about science. Ie. they want to address systemic flaws in how the scientific method is applied. Even the perfectest method still is used by humans, after all. Not wallowing but acknowledging and moving on from there.
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Good. That's precisely what scientists try to do. I don't know anything other system that works by trying to find more ways to prove itself wrong. I don't know Pomos who appreciate this. They usually complain it's dominated by white White men & so bound to be wrong.
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I'm sure there are people out there whose complaints are limited to that. But there are others who make valids points about how errors from unconsidered assumptions can lead to bad conclusions. Ie. if you take white male to be the baseline you'll get weird results.
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I'd certainly not complain about someone testing this. Showing the assumption to exist among some people abs comparing the results of their work to a group who don't think this.
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