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Probability and political ideology? Popper says: "wtf?"
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(Yes, I used an abbreviation on purpose)
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Lakatos says "this programme is degenerate".
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Right before he concludes: "ideologies, like religion, are a pseudoscience"
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What ideology do you follow? Lemme guess... you must be some kind of reductionist... probably a logical positivist? Did I get it right?

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I must admit close, very (too) close
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Yeah, you have that whiff about you. Also yes, it's an ideology just like any worldview is an ideology.
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Hhmmm... so would you call a theory of how neurons communicate (eg. population vs assembly coding) ideologies?
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now that is funny! (For real, not being sarcastic). But Ockham is only valid if 'all other variables are equal'. "History greets back"