"Science describes some material reality" "science describes some reality"
You put dialectical materialism in the latter category?
Also scientific testing+Marxism and bullshit idealist debates are not in any way similar in methodology
Both Marxism and Community Activism would be some form of Sociology, no? Plus activism is a movement to install some idea, while the idea would be the result of the science.
Unless the chart is saying that being more effective at activism is a science?
Excuse me, are you whining about Marxism not making the first square together with physics? That would be a rather peculiar statement, but you present it as if it were self evident. Just in case you are shallowly serious I may respond that physics does not acknowledge social reality and admittedly it can hardly account for organic life. Marxism, in the common understanding is a scientific theory of social reality. The fact that it is an economic reductionist theory of social reality does not mean it is physics.
Marxism, in the common understanding is a scientific theory of social reality
You're talking about "the common understanding" which is ironic in the context of this discussion.
The fact that it is an economic reductionist theory of social reality does not mean it is physics.
I would agree with you if I shared your shallow understanding of the subject. Have you read anything rigorous about dialectic materialism or historical materialism?
Also do you think social reality isn't a material reality? That is a rather odd position to have?
I don't like this chart.
According to the chart, I'm a material Purist, but I'm very flexible on methodology.
Came here to say the same...
What is an interesting finding. I wonder how many people are in each camp. Maybe we can get some data by infighting in a pseudonymous forum.
Need some more people to chime in, but I think the chart is flawed.
Maybe I'm wrong, but I can't imagine many people would consider Harry Potter a science, but physics is not.
Seems more like a flexibility scale. "start in the top corner and see how far you can go until you think, no, that's not science."
Maybe we can get some data by infighting in a pseudonymous forum.
Excellent idea, lol
Same, but I can go to material neutral if I keep my methodology pure
Political infighting on pseudonymous forums isn't a science.
It's a art.
I don't like that this chart makes it seem like all are valid. Science is literally defined by method. Material realism is maybe less strict, but it can't be science if the scientific method isn't followed.
As the author of the meme I disagree that such impression is given as to "toddlers destroying their toys" or "French surrealism" and Marxism being equivalent. May I draw your attention to these neatly distinguishable squares that break the chart up to ample separable plots? They are there to separate things rather than showing their equivalence.
These kinds of charts are usually used to compare things that, in this case, wouldn't be science, but humourously could be considered science if given a chance
But the other guy is right-if you don't follow the scientific method and don't try to describe your findings in ways that attempt to better understand the universe, then that's not science. That's bias
