{"id":9295,"date":"2012-10-13T11:11:57","date_gmt":"2012-10-13T11:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/10\/13\/scientism-2\/"},"modified":"2012-10-13T11:11:57","modified_gmt":"2012-10-13T11:11:57","slug":"scientism-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/10\/13\/scientism-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Those who hold that the only knowledge is scientific knowledge will not be content to restrict themselves to such knowledge; they will be tempted to pass off as scientific what is not.&#0160; The prime and best example is scientism itself: it is passed off as scientific when it is a philosophical thesis with all the rights, privileges, and <em>debilities<\/em> pertaining thereunto.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">(Details in <a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/scientism\/\" target=\"_self\">Scientism<\/a> category.)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those who hold that the only knowledge is scientific knowledge will not be content to restrict themselves to such knowledge; they will be tempted to pass off as scientific what is not.&#0160; The prime and best example is scientism itself: it is passed off as scientific when it is a philosophical thesis with all the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/10\/13\/scientism-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Scientism&#8221;<\/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":[69,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aphorisms-and-observations","category-scientism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9295","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=9295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}