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Originally Posted by TimMason
Obeisances to the High Priestess. Does Cadbury's Fruit and Nut count?
Perhaps if you have a pretty limited tool-set this method is not bad at all. But my argument was that the ritual actually brought together in one package a set of items - modes of creating solidarity both between and across generations, and so on - that we do not normally bring together.
I don't want to make the claim that this way of knowing is superior to science - just that it is different. Today, we can organize things so that a man will spend his life making nails, and very good nails they will be; earlier ways of being had less specialism, and blunter nails. but they were not, for all that, simply lost in mists of ignorance.
If you say that there is no other knowledge but the scientific kind, you seemingly pour hundreds of thousands of years of human existence into a large muddy bucket of error.
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I think this sub-thread may be confusing two very different things. One: being ways of remembering/conveying/transmitting information and Two: ways of knowing how/why things are the way they are.
Science and the Scientific method on which it is based addresses the second one. The way or remembering those gains "may" be addressed by the first (or perhaps not).