I've read "Language Is Sermonic" by Richard Weaver and the chapter on concealed rhetoric in scientistic sociology was very insightful and relative to this subject. When I read that book, I felt like a fish who became highly aware of the swamp water around him but had no vocabulary to describe this fishy feeling to his fish friends. The fishy feeling being that our western culture is facing hyper subversion through the social sciences. My best attempt at describing this feeling is that our language, ideals, and relational dynamics are being constantly polluted through the incautious dumping of social scientistic terms that fail to plainly describe the metaphysical reality they attempt to refer to. A very crude explanation but their something of substance somewhere in that statement.
Can a true theory emerge from the scientific study of social phenomena?
I've read "Language Is Sermonic" by Richard Weaver and the chapter on concealed rhetoric in scientistic sociology was very insightful and relative to this subject. When I read that book, I felt like a fish who became highly aware of the swamp water around him but had no vocabulary to describe this fishy feeling to his fish friends. The fishy feeling being that our western culture is facing hyper subversion through the social sciences. My best attempt at describing this feeling is that our language, ideals, and relational dynamics are being constantly polluted through the incautious dumping of social scientistic terms that fail to plainly describe the metaphysical reality they attempt to refer to. A very crude explanation but their something of substance somewhere in that statement.
Can a true theory emerge from the scientific study of social phenomena?
Awesome to hear you read Weaver, Lucas.
The questions is really what a scientific study of social phenomena should look like... Can you study society scientifically without numbers?
Is that a question worth pursuing? Hm If you want I’ll write an essay on it.
I think the answer is that you can study society both with and without numbers, but you will perceive society differently based up your approach.