• seeigel@feddit.org
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    1 day ago

    Enlighten me. Science can always be recreated. Which knowledge is needed from history that cannot be created in a scientific way?

    Science was created for a time when knowledge was insecure because it was tainted with superstition.

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        1 day ago

        As you noted, I rephrased your words. We are not talking about my axioms. It doesn’t make sense to define tainted if that is not what you mean.

        Still, your point seems to be that definition of words require history. You can have that form of history. The context is just that history is rewritten and I argue that that can be compensated with science.

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          1 day ago

          Can? How? Go read any intro book on epistemology. You are talking out of your ass and it’s disrespectful to everyone that actually takes knowledge and human progress seriously.

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            1 day ago

            You are not wrong that I should read a book on epistemology. But why do you ask me how science can create knowledge? If you have read those books yourself, you should know.

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              24 hours ago

              You are wrong on the point that essential decisions can be made without history. You don’t know the first thing about what knowledge actually is, and I asked you that because I didn’t think you could answer and it confirmed for me that you are uneducated.

              You didn’t do the barest minimum of work on this, your opinion is uneducated and you are being disrespectful.

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                23 hours ago

                You may be right. Then please explain to me how history is needed for science.