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I'm not interested in what the dictionary says or a textbook definition I'm interested in your personal distinction between the two ideas. How do you decide to put an idea in one category versus the other? I'm not interested in the abstract concepts like 'objective truth' I want to know how it works in real life for you.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

How familiar are you with Dialectical Materialism? That's a Marxist conception, very similar to the scientific method. Marx wasn't just an advocate for Socialized production and eventually Communism out of any moral superiority to Capitalism, but because he applied Dialectical and Historical Materialist analysis to Capitalism to predict where it was headed: monopoly and centralized syndicates, ripe for siezure and public planning.

The Dialectical theory of knowledge is similar to an endless refinement and spiral of the scientific method.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Not familiar at all, that's why I asked! Thanks, I'll have to read some.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

My favorite primer is Elementary Principles of Philosophy, it's great and starts from the very beginning.