Anti-Capitalist Sentiment (with some morality)

[a500lbgorilla]

Anytime you're able to say "this was wrong" or "this was right", you've engaged the scientific method.

Holy fucking no.

[wufwugy]

Holy fucking no.

I meant to say science. The method is techniques. It's all still philosophically scientific discovery. Unless you want to say that "science" is exclusively formal.

[a500lbgorilla]

I meant to say science. The method is techniques. It's all still philosophically scientific discovery. Unless you want to say that "science" is exclusively formal.

Science is exclusively the practice which allows us to turn natural reality into human understanding.

We've done this pretty successfully in biology, chemistry, physics, etc. When a physicist makes a human statement about gravity, it's pretty robust because of the methods we used to craft that statement. No statements in economics are crafted by this method.

Statements in economics are crafted through a method of rigorous argumentation and observation. But they fail to have a way to let Nature come in and have its say. There is no step that checks with Nature to make sure we're not way off base.