[MD] Alternatives to the scientific method

[Laycock, Jos (OSPT)]

Response 1 has arrived! 
These scientists are so dogmatic!

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Does "the method" as inferred from Popper et al specifically require objectivism? 

One is hard pressed to judge ones own objectivism. Scientific skepticism about what we think we understand objectively is prudent. Sooner or later this tends to happen but it can take hundreds or thousands of years and possibly much longer in some cases. 

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In its most reduced theoretical terms how would you define "the method"?  

People have spent considerable portions of their lives pondering and writing about "the method", to attempt to reduce it is to throw away insight. 

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Do "you" consider that you hold a particular metaphysical position? 

I'm not going there. 
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How do you categorise "scientists", and who would you specifically exclude from that group?? 

I'm not going there either.



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