Demarcation

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demarcation

Title text: Why don't philosophers ever see all these things that are obvious to children?

Votey

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Philosophers carp about whether there's a well-defined difference between hard and soft science. But it's easy to pinpoint!

Just put the word "mad" in front of a practitioner of the discipline and see how scared you are.

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"mad chemist." yikes! Definitely hard. "mad geneticist"? Probably making killer frog-men or something. Way scary. Hard science.

Mad conservation biologist? Okay, maybe they're bringing back the t-rex for ecological reasons or something.

A mad anthropologist might be, I dunno, sabotaging venerated cultural beliefs?

Then, you can easily separate out pseudoscience because the mad versions are funny. Mad astrology? What's their crazy plan? Making astrology actually work?

What's mad homeopathy? Trying to drown people?

I can't tell if this is true or just stupid.

That's because I'm a mad epistemologist/

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When the fuck do we get our own book, anyway?

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