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A good definition of science is: keeping bureaucratic epistemology in check. We’re an unchecked proceduralist species. Without rules about how to make rules we tend to get on runaway rule-making binges and choking ourselves to death. The opposite of “scientist” is “lawyer”
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Where “lawyer” can be loosely construed as any profession dedicated to upholding systems of rules, whether theological, monarchical, constitutional, or ideological in origin. There may be lip service to the phenomenology the rules are “about” but internal consistency is central
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