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TaylorS1986 · 3426 days ago · link · · parent · post: Parapsychologists do scientific studies proving they are right - and alarmingly often
I think stuff like this should give those who consciously or unconsciously believe in "Scientism", the notion that the only real truths and facts are empirical scientific ones, some pause. We don't really see the world as it is, only as it is presented to the conscious mind. We can't really know if the order we think we see in the universe is really "out there", as most people usually assume, or, as Kant believed, is simply the result of out our minds/brains order order our sensory perceptions. We BELIEVE that certain statistical methods are a valid way to determine "fact" from subjective anecdote and bias, but is that really true?