Right: there is no scientific method
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Replying to @Meaningness
As in "there are many methods and there is no coherence to them", "no single method could hope to capture all empirically accessible knowledge", and/or in another way? (Is there a longform piece about it? Especially the latter version feels technical to show)
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Replying to @allgebrah
Pretty much about that:https://meaningness.com/metablog/upgrade-your-cargo-cult …
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Replying to @Meaningness
sidenote, I'm pretty sure there's ethnographies of scientists doing their thing, a friend of mine did pretty much that when she studied an academic supercomputer's administration and crew (iirc it was that)
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Replying to @allgebrah
Yes, I’ve read some of that literature, and it is fascinating. One good guy in the field is Charles Goodwin; I was reading his stuff just before my mom’s situation went critical
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Replying to @Meaningness
ahh thanks for the reference! (reason I'm asking all this is that I'm researching/ideacrafting on the magical method as opposed to/complementing the scientific method, and so far it's been magic-heavy)
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Replying to @allgebrah
Ah… do you know Frances Yates’ stuff? Very cool on the intertwined history of magic and science in the early modern period, with contemporary implications
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Replying to @Meaningness @allgebrah
Would that be the same Frances Yates who wrote _The Art of Memory_?
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Replying to @BernardoVerda @allgebrah
Yes! I was thinking of her _Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition_
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Replying to @Meaningness @allgebrah
Thanks. (That book has been on my "must read, one day" list for so long, I'd forgotten about it.)
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I haven’t read it in like 35 years but it was mind-blowing back then
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