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Old 02-10-2017, 01:39 PM   #54
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Originally Posted by peter12 View Post
At this point, he is more or less correct.
You cannot logically assert that something is unknowable just because it is currently unknown. "At this point" is true, certainly, but at one point we didn't understand that emotion was felt in the brain, not the heart or the liver. We didn't learn that truth from deconstruction of language, either.

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Science is ideological
Science is predictive. If you think science is ideological, you have redefined the word "science" and called that an argument. Calling it predictive, on the other hand, is like calling a car a method of transportation, as you are describing both its main purpose and its observed behaviour.

What about science behaves ideologically? It's like calling baseball an ideology, the simple fact an abstract idea consists of agreed-upon rules doesn't make something an ideology.
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