TEACHING RATIONAL VS SCIENTIFIC? Oh. It’s bad. But… It gets a *lot* worse… –

TEACHING RATIONAL VS SCIENTIFIC?

Oh. It’s bad. But… It gets a *lot* worse…

—“AAAAhhhh And therein’ lay the problem. People confuse rational and scientific.”— Nick Heywood

Yeah, they do. But lets look at the full epistemic Series:

Series: Experienceable, Imaginable, Reasonable(Rational), Rational(Logical), Empirical(factual), Ratio-Empirical(weak-scientific), Operational(Algorithmic/Recipe), Ratio-Empirical-Operational(strong-scientific), Moral(Reciprocal), Reasonable-Ratio-Empirical-Operational-Moral, Complete(Scope), Testimonial.

So yeah. If we taught everyone that series and what it means, then they might stop conflating terms and appealing to authority via use of terms, when they have no idea what they mean.

We can deflate existence into testable dimensions, and by testing each learn something. But rarely can we say anything about any single dimension exportable to more dimensions without accumulating successful tests of dimensions.