Category: Psychology
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Hayek on Scientific Knowledge and its Limits
“[T]he confidence in the unlimited power of science is only too often based on a false belief that the scientific method consists of a ready-made technique, or in imitating the form rather than the substance of scientific procedure, as if one needed only to follow some cooking recipes to solve all social problems.” Hayek, F.…
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A Disappreciation of the Term ‘Privilege.’
“Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto.” Terence Words are ambiguous, vague, and dynamic. They do not have singular meanings. They mean different things to different people. And as a fad is diffusing among people, the meanings of the very same words become a function of time in the sense that they change for…
Derbeel Q8 