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yeahiknow3@lemmings.world âš5â© âšmonthsâ© agoYou should publish your findings and collect your Nobel prize. Youâve solved philosophy.
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yeahiknow3@lemmings.world âš5â© âšmonthsâ© agoYou should publish your findings and collect your Nobel prize. Youâve solved philosophy.
thanks_shakey_snake@lemmy.ca âš5â© âšmonthsâ© ago
Thatâs not like a big gotcha, lol⊠Those checklist items correspond directly to section headings, and I quoted the even-more-strongly-worded section heading directly.
In fact, I included it as the best evidence I found for your point: That if I read any textbook on the philosopy of science, it will spell out how âscienceâ is âa particular method of peer review.â Well⊠I found some evidence that kind of points that way, and a whole boatload that suggests that that isnât really thought of as part of the Demarcation Problem. I wasnât going in trying to âbe right,â thatâs just what I found.
Like I put quite a bit of work in good faith to try to understand where youâre coming from, but I donât feel like youâre trying to meet me half way.
yeahiknow3@lemmings.world âš5â© âšmonthsâ© ago
Look, hereâs my point: can you name one scientist, just one, whose work isnât subject to peer review? I canât think of any.
yeahiknow3@lemmings.world âš5â© âšmonthsâ© ago
When I look around my University I see people doing something, letâs call it âscience.â Iâd like to define this activity to distinguish it from similar but different activities. The very fact that my efforts to do so have created a Demarcation Problem means the definition is more convoluted than simply âempirical investigation.â If thatâs all that science was, there wouldnât be a demarcation problem!
Elon Musk seems to âthinkâ (and I use this word very loosely) that science is when people do experiments or try to figure out the truth. But if that were the case, there would be no debate, no demarcation problem, no counter examples.
What we need to do is describe what scientists do that non-scientists donât do with sufficient rigor to distinguish the two groups. As I said, peer review is a salient feature present in one group and absent in the other. Do you have a definition?