Normal_Anomaly comments on Rationality Quotes February 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Normal_Anomaly 02 February 2012 10:32:01PM 5 points [-]

I think "scientism," "unscientific," and "pseudoscientific" all have different and necessary meanings: respectively, "attempting to use scientific epistemology but misunderstanding it", "using bad epistemology," and "using bad epistemology but making a deliberate effort to look like one is being scientific". The word closest to meaning what you want "scientism" to mean is probably "Bayesianism".