Keith Hudson wrote: [snip] > Existentialism was pretty well the last throw of
intellectual chicanery against scientific methodology.[snip]
You are aware, I hope, that this assertion does not win universal approbation.
Husserl and others have tried to help scientists se that the validity of scientific theories is not itself an empirial phenomenon measurable by the methods appropriate to studying the motions of billiard balls, stars and protons. You kjnow how it goes: If the truth of scientific theories is merely an empirical phenomenon, then tany claim to truth for the theory is merely an empirical phenomenon in its turn, which has causes but not grounds.
Existentialists were in general against all forms of chichanery. They are not to be confused with postmodernists.
But perhaps I have misunderstood you. Perhaps you agree that while objective measurement and attempts to find mathematical laws to *predict* the motions of billiard balls and other spheroid material lumps is scientific in studying material lumps, the hermeneutical methoid of interpretation of meaning is the scientific method appropriate to studying human existence(sic), i.e., your own living experience as "my own". I am glad we agree that "scientism" (empirical so-called "psychology" - what Husserl called "psychologism"..) in understanding human experience is a contemporary analog of astrology in understanding the stars!
Vale!
"Yours in meaningful discourse which we agree measures phenomena as opposed to being among the pheno mena measured!"
\brad mccormick
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Let your light so shine before men,
that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
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