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Author Topic: WCDT Strips 3656-3660 (15th to 19th January 2018)  (Read 43600 times)

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Re: WCDT Strips 3656-3660 (15th to 19th January 2018)
« Reply #250 on: 27 Jan 2018, 03:04 »

Having said that I still have some bangs of guilt.

Please don't, least not on my behalf.

I was serious about the issue being 'done' for me - believe me, we are golden, k? Thanks for your understanding and kindness.

You see, in my youth I had a strong tendency to dismiss sciences other than the exact sciences as, well, less exact.

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Remember who you're talking with? One of the lesser priests of the "Queen of Sciences" -> we talk to Mathematicians, and maybe also Chemists & Biologists, provided they make an appointment, remember their place and clean up nicely ... :lol:

But Psychology? Is that even a Science ...?
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I know exactly what you mean, and have been guilty of that exact same hubris many, many times myself.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3656-3660 (15th to 19th January 2018)
« Reply #251 on: 27 Jan 2018, 06:55 »

Well, we in the Arts, are not joining you natural philosophers, in calling what we do science.

As to psychology as a science, that reminds me of an anecdote that was used to underscore the importance of falsification in the scientific method. Freud* posited that there was no dream that was not caused by an underlying, unconscious desire. One day, a man came to him, saying he had a dream that could not possibly be anything he desired. Freud, up to challenge, invited the man to explain his dream to him. And so he did. When he was done teling his dream, Freud was looking very pensive indeed. "My dear sir," he said, "clearly, your unconscious desired to try and prove my theory wrong."

*It might be that that's not quite correct, but I'm relating it as I remember it.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3656-3660 (15th to 19th January 2018)
« Reply #252 on: 27 Jan 2018, 20:20 »

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Re: WCDT Strips 3656-3660 (15th to 19th January 2018)
« Reply #253 on: 27 Jan 2018, 21:04 »

Meanwhile those of us who studied philosophy sit in our crumbling ivory towers and reminisce about the good old days, when all of this was ours.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3656-3660 (15th to 19th January 2018)
« Reply #254 on: 28 Jan 2018, 06:00 »

But take comfort in the mouseover text of https://xkcd.com/903/.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3656-3660 (15th to 19th January 2018)
« Reply #255 on: 28 Jan 2018, 07:27 »

Meanwhile those of us who studied philosophy sit in our crumbling ivory towers and reminisce about the good old days, when all of this was ours.

Does that tower come with appropriate CITES documentation?
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