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Humanities may not be a science, but being human sure is empirical.

Experience is all we have.

At the bottom of all of these bouts is then “demarcation problem”. What is a science, what isn’t a science?

I prefer Paul Fayerabend’s view: if it is useful To somebody somewhere - it is a science.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistemological_anarchism




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