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To: GourmetDan

sigh... If you read the trail of posts, you’ll figure out why I invoked the term.


61 posted on 05/02/2008 3:01:02 PM PDT by Huber (And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. - John 1:5)
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To: Huber
"sigh... If you read the trail of posts, you’ll figure out why I invoked the term."

I did read the chain of posts and you correctly invoked the term but incorrectly concluded that the article was 'science'.

The article is scientism under definitions 1 & 2.

You are arguing the article was not scientism under one part of definition #3.

sci·en·tism –noun

1. the style, assumptions, techniques, practices, etc., typifying or regarded as typifying scientists.

2. the belief that the assumptions, methods of research, etc., of the physical and biological sciences are equally appropriate and essential to all other disciplines, including the humanities and the social sciences.

3. scientific or pseudoscientific language.

sigh...

62 posted on 05/02/2008 3:26:34 PM PDT by GourmetDan (Eccl 10:2 - The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left.)
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