Frippy

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   by Frippy 6y ago

   I'm not sure what a better word would be. We use the same word informally to describe how babies learn—they poke and prod at their environment and see what happens. Just because they aren't rigorous doesn't mean the process d
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   by Frippy 6y ago

   Yep I agree, I had some horrible professors as a history postgrad that embodied this exact approach.
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   by Frippy 6y ago

   Yeah I agree, there are some particularly egregious examples. If you want a good laugh about this stuff, "Fashionable Nonsense" is a great book.
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   by Frippy 6y ago

   Agreed, I think the points others have made about the humanities being used as political weapons are valid. As a rule of thumb, any time knowledge is being used in the drunk-with-a-lamppost fashion (for support rather than illumination), it
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   by Frippy 6y ago

   This article has some good points but is a bit meandering. The best point is right there at the beginning: the humanities study things which are not (entirely) subject to scientific rigor, but which are still worth studying. This sort of be