{"id":5236,"date":"2017-09-15T12:26:55","date_gmt":"2017-09-15T12:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/09\/15\/scientism-underbeleif-and-overbelief\/"},"modified":"2017-09-15T12:26:55","modified_gmt":"2017-09-15T12:26:55","slug":"scientism-underbeleif-and-overbelief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/09\/15\/scientism-underbeleif-and-overbelief\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientism, Underbelief, and Overbelief"},"content":{"rendered":"

The secular nail their colors to the mast of scientism.  Or most of them do.  Their attitude is an amalgam of underbelief and overbelief.  Their underbelief is their belief that science alone is genuine knowledge.  Their overbelief is that this is so – – when it is plain that it is not something known scientifically.<\/span><\/p>\n

There is so much that we know that we do not know by means of the natural sciences. Some examples for you to think about.<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. There is logical knowledge.  How do you know that the A and O forms of the traditional square of opposition are convertible while the E and O forms are not? By empirical observation and experiment?<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. There is mathematical knowledge.<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. There is semantic knowledge.<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. There is moral knowledge.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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    The secular nail their colors to the mast of scientism.  Or most of them do.  Their attitude is an amalgam of underbelief and overbelief.  Their underbelief is their belief that science alone is genuine knowledge.  Their overbelief is that this is so – – when it is plain that it is not something known scientifically. … Continue reading “Scientism, Underbelief, and Overbelief”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scientism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}