The problem with science II

I am unclear about what you mean in some of the concepts listed.

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The shriveling of human experience

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Sorry, I have no idea what you are talking about here. Do you mean people in the past had more or better experiences than people do today?

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Humanities versus Science

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Once again, I am not sure what this is about. I realize bringing in my own experiences in this matter may be offensive to some, however I am doing so in order to succinctly elaborate on why I do not believe there is some war between the humanities and the sciences. I have a BS in Technical Communications and have even worked some in the field, which requires one to be conversant with both English usage including literature and science/technology. How does such a degree/employment exist if there is such a wide unbridgeable gulf between the two fields of knowledge?

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Philistinism of science

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What is meant by this? Strictly speaking, are you implying scientists are using the philosophy, or indeed, taking orders from an extinct Middle Eastern tribe?

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Instrumental talk as opposed to meaning

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I think I may have a vague idea of what you may mean here, however I believe science must use strictly defined terms in order to convey proper meaning. Besides, isn't meaning in the humainities a philosophically subjective, as opposed to objective, concept? How could science communicate the concept of certian elements in repeatable experiments in florid, poetic terms when precision is the name of the game? IMHO sometimes it simply has to use numbers.

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Literature versus Science

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Once again, puzzled. Are you saying a person conversant with science is opposed to literature or visa versa? History provides many counterexamples IMHO.

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Survival versus Meaning

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Need more information to delineate what is meant here. Is survival antithetical to meaning? Does that imply a life of meaning is against survival?

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Implicit morality in supposedly value-free or scientific approaches to social problems
Social science as such with its built in biases in its definitions of its own research projects.

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These could be an entire thread. I for one, would be interested in hearing what constitutes such implicit morality or biases, since I believe these are quite valid subjects for consideration. Of course, I would be more interested in valid criticisms of social science methodology based upon evidence and less interested in personal disagreement with conclusions unsupported by evidence of misapplication of methodology.