Timeline for Does it make sense to view religions as Lakatosian Research Programmes?
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| Nov 19 at 6:18 | comment | added | vsz | @NotThatGuy : That's not even unique to religion, many proponents of political ideologies also use pseudoscience to try to support their beliefs. I've even seen plenty of cases of atheists using pseudoscience to try to support their side. | |
| Nov 18 at 15:57 | history | edited | J D | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 18 at 15:57 | comment | added | J D | @NotThatGuy I think that's good commentary. Reasoning from conclusions to premises is the core of rationalization, and that's also antithetical to good reason. | |
| Nov 18 at 15:33 | comment | added | NotThatGuy | Religious belief isn't pseudoscience in itself, but plenty of people use pseudoscience to try to support religious belief. Christianity uses natural theology, with debatable validity, and only in some part. It still instead relies heavily/primarily on "revealed theology", i.e. scripture and personal experience, while there's also a substantial amount of presuppositionalism, which ideally compares worldviews, but in practice seems to boil down to starting from one's conclusion and reasoning in circles to get back to that conclusion. | |
| Nov 17 at 22:08 | history | answered | J D | CC BY-SA 4.0 |