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Scientific method

The procedure for being wrong less often, imperfectly followed.

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Empiricism

Empiricism doesn’t trust your mind until your eyes, ears, and instruments have signed off.

Pragmatism does not ask 'Is it true?'—it asks 'What happens if you act on it?'

Rationalism doesn’t trust the senses—it distrusts them. And that’s where it starts to fail.

Skepticism isn’t doubt for doubt’s sake—it’s the only tool that stops belief from becoming dogma.

Aristotle didn’t discover truth—he built the first scalable syntax for arguing about it.

Science isn’t discovered in labs—it’s built there, one discarded datum at a time.

He didn’t narrate nature—he deferred to it.

A scattering calculation named after him still calibrates CERN—but he got the particle wrong.

Silent Spring didn’t just warn about pesticides—it rewrote the rules of public accountability for industrial chemistry.

The Smithsonian wasn’t built to house museums—it was built to sit outside government.

A term with no definition, used everywhere it shouldn’t be.

The Enlightenment didn’t free humanity—it built the first modern bureaucracy of reason, and we’re still running its code.