What does one call someone who adheres to scientism? In a philosophical

The adherer of scientism

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Scientist in the ideological sense

>>9071917
A fedora.

That's a nonsensical question because science cannot be a philosophy because science merely a tool to investigate, it doesn't tell you what the presuppositions are or how to behave. Science can tell you how things work, how they behave. Philosophy is a way of introspection, observation, imagination, and extrapolating. Philosophy and mythology is mainly interested in how we as humans should behave and conduct our lives, how to act.


So that's like asking, "What is the coolest vacation spot my GPS can take me to?". Well, a GPS can certainly help you get anywhere you like, but it doesn't tell you where you Should go.

>>9072318
Idiot.

Scientism has underlying worldview presuppositions, such as that the only valid source of true data comes from the physical world (not to mention the position that the physical world exists at all), and that logic, reason, and empirical testing is the one way to verify information.

There are places that you GPS will simply say "signal lost".

>>9072323

I know, I'm simply separating Scientism from Science. Just to show that science itself cant be a philosophy, regardless of whateverthefuck you call your philosophy. Scientology anyone?

>>9072318
I disagree. Take The Sand Reckoner by Archimedes for example, here is a book that has a lot of philosophy in it, for a scientific proof. The philosophy of how to approach the measuring of the celestial bodies, made in a commentary right before the proposition begins, the methodology of measuring the 'stadia', and the instrument involved therewith, and also the overall conception of the universe itself, a geocentric one. These are all examples of philosophizing about details people know very little about. It's also evidence of science being proven wrong, further showing how warped our definitions of reality can persist for thousands of years incorrectly, a fact which many evolutionists seem to miss.

>>9072339

I completely agree with you. Before the invention of the scientific method proper a few centuries ago science was called Natural philosophy. Philosophy and Science are complementary and should go hand in hand so that they can both rein each other in.

>>9072337
It's not Scientology, that is a weird religion.

It's called Scientism. You're right, this is not simply using the scientific method, it is a philosophical position that the scientific method (logic, reason, and empirical observation) is the ONLY valid source of true knowledge.