(January 17, 2022 at 2:58 am)LadyForCamus Wrote: @GrandizerII Which philosophical positions are you referring to here? I’m not being snarky; just enjoying the discussion and looking for a bit more clarity with regard to that last bit.
Well, science isn't really one thing, but varies depending on the field one conducts science in. So there may be slightly different answers to this question depending on which field we're talking about (physics vs. psychology, for example).
But simplistically speaking:
A blend of mild forms of empiricism and rationalism + a mild form of falsificationism + uniformity of the laws of nature + the reality of the external world and some other epistemological and metaphysical views that I can't think of off the top of my head now. There might also be some ethical position(s) underpinning the scientific method, but dunno.
