Scientific?

Katherine reflections, Thinkings and poems Apr 21, 2016Aug 19, 2016 1 Minute

Mary Midgley
It is this claim to a monopoly of meaning, rather than any special scientific doctrine, that makes science and religion look like competitors today. Scientism emerged not as the conclusion of scientific argument but as a chosen element in a worldview – a vision that attracted people by its contrast with what went before – which is, of course, how people very often do make such decisions, even ones that they afterwards call scientific.

Mary Midgley

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Published Apr 21, 2016Aug 19, 2016