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From: "Andrew Phelps" <starfish@northcoast.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 19:56:51 -0700
Subject: Re: [s-acc] Re: benthic experience
Kmo:
You wrote:
how do I argue against a position that causes suffering and pretends to be science. I point to the suffering caused and to the lack of scientific evidence.
Yes. But it's more than "lack of scientific evidence." In fact, "evidence based" is an unfortunate homily today. Bacon's ideation regarding "inductive reasoning" says more than "get the evidence." It also says that the 'attitude' of the person putting together the evidence is a factor, an "idol" being involved, in his terms.
I think you could achieve a better handle on benthic phenomenology if you also pointed to the suffering due to the prescientific character of the "science"/way of engaging evidence that obtains.
Best
Andrew