Kepler made falsifiable claims
Only in social sciences are you blamed for not knowing everything right away. You hear "Freud was wrong about everything", but never Kepler.
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What about Aristotle?
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@tante hard sciences think they are building towards a single objective truth. credit given for progress towards the goal. -
social sciences dont have that framing. "partly right" always means increasing overall complexity of solution space.
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True, but people in social sciences have annoying tendency to cite Freud when he was wrong. Nobody in science cites Kepler.
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that’s because Freud was wrong about everything
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Because you could build upon it. But I think the case could be made for Freud 2.
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it happens quite often when you discuss about... metaphisics
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The people that do blame hard scientists for not knowing everything are probably mandated to go to therapy.
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@naval Except Freud was a fraud. Ppl usually don't rip on Weber, Merton, Mills, Giddens the way they do Freud.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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