Entire fields of scholarship devote themselves ...

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TO
THE CRITICISM
AND DECONSTRUCTION OF
THIS UNSCIENTIFIC ENTERPRISE,
and while scientists are active in the criticism of other varieties of public irrationality,
their general failure ~ since Einstein's passing ~ to criticize scienticism is often mistaken for assent.

But to the disappointment of some philosophers of science, even theoretical physics cannot progress under empiricist fundamentalism, and physicists who regard themselves as thoroughgoing realists willingly accept the existence of microscopic objects, such as quarks, whose direct observation is thought to be impossible in principle.

To be sure, evidence-based reasoning remains safe, even in the quantum regime; the claim that the existence of non-observables can be inferred from experiment is ultimately shorthand for the statement that these objects play an irreducible role in an empirically well-established theory.

But despite the success of the scientific method in its natural domain of application, where is the evidence for the claim that "everything must have a logical explanation"? It seems self-evident that just as science cannot disprove a claim that has no scientific formulation, it cannot disqualify consideration of such claims.

Why are we
here together in this place:
misschien verdrietig tot straks of later ~
eerst even wat eten en drinken
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