Both really but I do mean ontology in this case. If your knowledge framework is up to that same standard of an informed scientific worldview, if there isn't some small gap for woo to enter through or some oversight in where your information came from and how it was processed, maybe it will work out just fine and you'll have the same experience you would from a doctor doing their job. Taking in those individual pieces of information is important but how you synthesise them into understanding something as wildly complex as the human body is where you can really fuck up.
I never used the words metaphysical nor supernatural, nor did I call ontology either. When I use ontology here it's the materialism/idealism split. The medical understanding is right in the way science in general or Marxism are. Non-medical understandings might be partially right but their social constructions don't result in the same kind of universalised knowledge base that I could cross-reference with other materialistic understandings like chemistry or biology. That's what you're paying for in a hospital. It's constructed out of that observational epistemological standard and then the resulting framework is the least-wrong set of conclusions we can make about the world. If there's a flaw in that framework the result is bad.
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Both really but I do mean ontology in this case. If your knowledge framework is up to that same standard of an informed scientific worldview, if there isn't some small gap for woo to enter through or some oversight in where your information came from and how it was processed, maybe it will work out just fine and you'll have the same experience you would from a doctor doing their job. Taking in those individual pieces of information is important but how you synthesise them into understanding something as wildly complex as the human body is where you can really fuck up.
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That's actually just because of the order it comes in Aristotle. It's the chapters that followed the chapters on physics.
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Why I never. What is this world coming to, reading next sentences?
I never used the words metaphysical nor supernatural, nor did I call ontology either. When I use ontology here it's the materialism/idealism split. The medical understanding is right in the way science in general or Marxism are. Non-medical understandings might be partially right but their social constructions don't result in the same kind of universalised knowledge base that I could cross-reference with other materialistic understandings like chemistry or biology. That's what you're paying for in a hospital. It's constructed out of that observational epistemological standard and then the resulting framework is the least-wrong set of conclusions we can make about the world. If there's a flaw in that framework the result is bad.
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