“Soft
Sciences” and knowing through “sensual immersion”
Scientism thinkers
assert that Big Answers are best developed by starting with
an empirical fact and carefully reasoning towards
a hypothesis to a theory. Since
the scientific method does not handle non-repeatable events,
the study of particularly human events, such as historical events
and human behavior,
are approached by methods of study informed by
the scientific mindset.
In time, there arose the “social
sciences” which
dealt with non-repeatable events approached by testing evidence as empirically as possible.
These came to be called “soft
sciences” in contrast
to the rigorous “hard sciences” of
the empirical approach.
Since human experience is an historical experience,
Earthfolk hold—against
the increasing influence of the Scientism Big Story—that
only modest insights and gains are derived from the
“social
sciences” or
from a scientific study of human life.
This is so since so little of
what makes a human “human” can be subjected
to a repeatable scientific experience.
Scientism approaches the human experience with the
tools of
intellectual analysis
anchored in data obtained using the
five senses.
Earthfolk approach
knowing with the the tools of
sensual analysis which are anchored in data
obtained by the
“five-senses-plus,” that
is, through sensual immersion as interpreted
by
human experience.
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