On "Pseudo-Science."

On “Pseudo-Science.”

 

“Pseudo-science” is merely a term that Sciencists use by means of which they put down other forms of divination by absurd comparison.

 

Suppose that I want to learn the language of birds. Science would do very little to help me to do this. The logic of science is itself merely a recent development in the HUMAN psyche. Why should the language of birds be presumed to have the same structure? To relate with them, one must let go of that logic and to overcome it as one would a hurdle. What does SCIENCE have to do with language? Do we learn our first languages by the Scientific Method? Do we use the Scientific Method to converse with one another? No.

My study, were it enacted, would be released with a simple caveat: This is not Science. But to describe it as “pseudo-science” in order to label it (“pseudo-science” literally means “not science”) would be to define the method entirely in terms OF science, implying that it can only be understood by relation TO science. This has the connotation of a put-down.

 

Dm.A.A.