(September 13, 2017 at 11:41 am)SteveII Wrote:(September 13, 2017 at 9:37 am)Mathilda Wrote: But there is nothing that the scientific method cannot ultimately explain given sufficient resources, except perhaps what happened before the Big Bang.
All explainable by science.
Numbers, Maths and logic are human inventions used to describe reality. Without humans they would not exist.
Ethics are a product of society and evolved instincts.
Human consciousness is a product of the brain.
We don't know that scientific laws cannot be explained using the scientific method.
If it's part of physical reality then it's amenable to the scientific method, otherwise it doesn't actually exist.
Wow. As Neo said, there is a lot wrong with this.
You might want to look up Scientism (which is what you are espousing).
Logical Positivism (or Scientism) is the view that all real knowledge is scientific (empirical) knowledge—that there is no rational, objective form of inquiry that is not a branch of science. At least three main problems:
1. Scientism is too restrictive a theory of knowledge. If science is the only path to truth, then there are no moral truths, no aesthetic truths, no philosophical truths (like human rights). Mathematics and logic are not scientific--they are presupposed as true *before* science even begins--how does is work that the only path to truth relies on other truths to get off the ground!?!?
2. Further regarding philosophy of science, scientific inquiry itself rests on a number of philosophical assumptions: that there is an objective world external to the minds of scientists; that this world is governed by causal regularities; that the human intellect can uncover and accurately describe these regularities; and so forth. Since science presupposes these things, it cannot attempt to justify them without arguing in a circle.
3. The claim that positivism is true is not itself a scientific claim, not something that can be established using scientific or empirical methods. That science is even a rational form of inquiry (let alone the only rational form of inquiry) is not something that can be established scientifically. So, it is self-refuting philosophy.