Hyperrationalism/scientism is the worldview of a child. If you assign Truth to our flawed reason and rationality, you're cheating.
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Anything that can be known and understood is dwarfed by what cannot be. This is an inherent property of experience itself, not a model flaw.
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I respect not believing things you can't substantiate - why would you - but only believing things you can prove is functionally impossible.
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Anyone who says they only believe science is lying. Science doesn't model enough of the world to get through 10 minutes of the day safely.
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At the fringes, Scientism blends with magical thinking - becoming self-evident hypocrisy.
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This is to say nothing of all sorts of fallacious thinking where people assume this moment's instantiation of scientific thought is final.
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Or in plain English, that what we know won't be disproved next year, next week or even in 5 minutes.