• galanthus@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    I enjoyed our converation, it is more fun arguing with people on the internet when they are not idiots.

    But I wonder, do you consider maths a science? Also, there are practices thay deal with practical matters and “the real world” that are not scientific. Like natural philosophy. I think method and rigour are more important than subject.

    • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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      5 hours ago

      I appreciate it too, though I wouldn’t call this “arguing” so much as talking. I would call what the other user was trying to do “arguing,” haha.

      Generally, science requires experimentation and observation, mathematics generally doesn’t fall into that category. Marxism generally does, as it is a toolset for observing and experimenting with human organization and social relations. You could call it “sociology” and be mostly correct, though that encompasses non-Marxian views of sociology as well as Marxian. I think when you get to this point in the specifics, the labels don’t actually matter as much except for shorthand descriptors.