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“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
.

Continue—Sensual Immersion

 

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