RE: Some words on Scientism (Letters 7.0)
Well that there's a big ball steel wool to swallow.
Hermeneutics - literal interpretation of the Bible.
Scientism-scientific - science only please: always the school of hard knocks.
Epistemology - the study knowledge
OODA - never heard that that I remember
I am writing these vocabulary words so I remember them. It is refreshing to see something like but out here in the fields one never encounters such things.
One does find that in epistemology of the military and martial that thought is not what keeps one alive or worse, injured, as reaction. The removal of conscious thoughts and a pure switch to automatic and more powerful, faster subconscious is a guarantor of surety to success. The observation that the subconscious left do what wants, or calculates to be the choice in a situation, notably self preservation could be distilled directly contact and interaction of the soul.
Realization that the soul is a virtual extension of the physical and that the body may grow the soul for a purpose is a key that unlocks access to the soul which thinks faster than the subconscious. The subconscious then interprets what the soul decides. Then the subconscious transfers to the conscious and all takes time. Trust the soul, which stores additional knowledge outside the flesh and enables bizarre abilities not normally realized by most persons, yet most likely realized by all at some point...how can one determine by philosophy whether or not such things are true or false? Maybe?
Scientists know that science is not the truth but that eventually the truth will be discovered. I find nothing wrong with the practice of science: theory, hypothesis, experiment, result. God invented it and everything else. Including philosophy. One adheres to hermeneutics although literal translation deters complete understanding and instant realization all levels of consciousness: parables, alliteration, metaphor, and miracles leads me personally to think in terms of the first Christian commandment: Thou Shalt Love the Lord Thy God...
One thing some philosophy recognizes spectacularly, accurately, and describes precisely is there is more than science can know to be reality. Our senses are insufficient and the instruments we make are insufficient to know all there is to know.
Example: using the telescope and variations science has determined the dimensions of the universe but the observations of the most distant things to observe occured very distant in the past. Is any of it true to what is seen now? The observed things move and are nowhere near where they were. Then, there is reflection and refraction of the energy from the observed things, the energy moved by gravity: NASA found nine galaxies in separate parts of the universe which a appeared to be exactly the same. Then there is dark matter which does not reflect. It has been guessed to be ninety percent of all that is light matter.
So it's tough. Anyways, a picture is worth a thousand words at least. Yet sometimes worth only a few and sometimes many more, a metaphor.
I wanted to deeper hermeneutics and epistemology but it is my wife's day off and evil uses his now calluses right thumb, recovering brain, and, and...
Thanks for the very long comment!!
You're welcome
Thanks @steemcuratir04, @mikitaly.