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Originally Posted by BudFox
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Scientific... no. The very idea is ridiculous. It's like claiming religion or friendship or prostitution has a scientific basis. What therapists have done is cloak their practice in quasi-medical language, and put on pretentious doctor-ish airs and affectations, but it doesn't change the basic reality. . .
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I have a basically scientific orientation to life, and for me it seems possible that a science of the "psyche" is possible -- but we don't have it now.
Psychology uses statistics and claims that makes it "scientific", which for me is ridiculous. But apparently that seems reasonable to other people.
Religion and friendship may have many benefits in life, and I agree that those are NOT essentially scientific. Statistics may, and probably should, have little to contribute to our sense of value about those things. Or prostitution.