99% of propositions in the humanities aren't even falsifiable.

>>2603148

Because most young people are dreamers and naive (that's why many young people also believe in socialism and communism) and they think that studying their favorite interests will help them in the real world.

Or their are fuck ups without any perspective in life that want to drain the pockets of their parents (and the taxpayer) for as long as possible

>>2603160
I bet you live in section 8 housing and aren't white lol

Maybe falsifiability is not a parameter art history esteems or strives to, and people interested therein.

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>>2603178
So why are art history programs funded? Seems like a waste of resources, no practically useful technologies or techniques can be derived from nonfalsifiable gibberish.

>>2603180
You're right. They shouldn't be publicly funded. Neither philosophy or any humanities, with the possible exception of law. Plato's academy was a private school, etc. Liberal arts cannot claim to be liberal (in the original sense of the word) if they require that the state provide them.

>>2603204
>with the possible exception of law
Law is bound up with a bunch of other humanities. Law also isn't falsifiable--it's a bunch of rationalist mumbo-jumbo. i.e. nonfalsifiable antiempirical bullshit. Most lawyers are morally dubious, anyway.

>>2603160
oh look it's this meme again

>>2603162
ahh yes the great sense of American judgement, projecting their shitty lives onto other people

>>2603228
I served on a jury for an assault case a few years ago, deliberated on behalf of acquittal with other jurors simply because the prosecutor made a couple of logical fallacies during the opening and closing statements. It also cemented in my mind that most lawyers are dip shits.

>>2603148
The value of Falsifiability is not itself falsifiable.
Also,
>muh science
is the basement tier atheist version of
>muh dick
or
>muh heritage

In short, you're worthless please evacuate

"Only falsifiable propositions are worth of studying" is not a falsifiable statement.

Of course it isn't , as it comes from a philosophical theory, not from a scientific study. Said philosophical theory was established by philosopher of science Karl Popper in the 20th century, the first one to propose that falsifiability should be the criterion to define empirical sciences.

Humanities in general, and philosophy in particular, define what is and what is not science. It wouldn't be surprising if in the future we abandon falsifiability as a criterion.

>>2603828
it's not a meme
thanks for being a drain on society with your art degree, we sure never more of those

I'm STEM but History is one of the single most important subjects, it helps give citizens of a polity/members of a Nation a sense of place. It helps to ground them and help them understand their place in the world - quite literally - in terms of how they came to be and why the world they inhabit is currently the way it is.

Every westerner circa 1900 understood the roots of western civilization and what shaped Europe/The European diaspora. Today barely anyone knows anything other than a smattering of trivia on the Holocaust and WW2 and the Amerindians.

It's a damn shame that History has been butchered like this. Don't blame the discipline itself, blame the libtards who ruined it.

They did to history the same thing they did to sociology and anthropology. They started as promising fields, then they took control and turned them into platforms to spread their HIV, and now nobody takes it seriously anymore. There's nothing to salvage anymore. End humanities altogether and hope that in the future, after this dark age has passed, a true culture and a true university shall emerge out of the ashes of our civilization, when some Chinese archeologist finds the records we left behind buried beneath the ruins.

If you enjoy art, learning about the historical development of artists, schools, styles etc is very enriching and increases your appreciation and enjoyment of the art's beauty.

no 1 hypothesis in isolation is deductively falsifiable, including those made by scientists. falsifiability is not the mark of the scientific

>>2604592
>I'm STEM but History is one of the single most important subjects

The West needs a reset like China had. I hope a social revolution kills all your storytellers and erased useless history.

Every generation is tied to the past. Let my people go!

We study art history because art is how we document stuff. Paintings, songs, sculptures ooften replicate how humanity felt during that time. Like now, we make videos and songs, or art, about how the world is and our inept leader. So history, is what happened, and art history is how humanity handled it

>>2604943
Found the NPR subscriber

>>2603148
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wg79R5jopj8

>>2603148
Art has always been subjective. Proposition is not a concern because what you create can be interpreted differently

>>2604938

it probably wont be a bad idea to restart with the greeks

>>2604592
This.