Modal Argument: The Mind is Not the Brain

[bennyboy]

You don't just go making up words by slapping an "ism" on it and call it a religion or a "pseudo-religion."

1. Bullshit you don't form words that way. You can in fact put an "-ism" on any noun that refers to a body of knowledge, a methodology or an ideology. That's what that particular suffix is for.
2. You don't go making up strawmen to shoot down, either. Did I say science is a religion or a "pseudo-religion?"

Anyone that uses the word Scientism other than in jest is a buffoon.

Sure you can have scientism. It is the belief in the authority of big-S Science by people who don't understand it. It is the faith that scientists are here to solve the world's problems.

Don't believe me? How many people are out there who think science has replaced philosophy as the only useful way to think about the world, but who couldn't tell you the basics of the scientific method to save their lives? How many people are there who don't know that science is itself a philosophy?

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I see that apophenia beat me to the punch.