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Yes, I can read the dictionary, thank you. Nevertheless, I will respond to your implied objection instead of whatever you wrote.

1. Check the definition of an analogy (this is the case where the dictionary is actually useful), maybe it will make clear why what I wrote was not meant as a perfect depiction of reality;

2. Psychology has not really a good track as a science: between replication crisis, statistical illiteracy of the researchers, ideologically motivated reasoning and outright fraud it is not clear to me that believing in Psychology is any different that believing in Theology: they are both self-consistent systems that fail to make prediction on the physical world and, while intellectually interesting and provocative, I would not like that anyone makes decisions about society and my life using concepts from these disciplines.

P.S.: Actually, thank you for giving me the opportunity to reflect much more about the similarity between these two seemingly different disciplines.




I believe flybrand had to look up the word and then just wanted to save time for other folks (like me) who might also have needed to do so :)


I interpreted the capitalization of 'THEOLOGY' as an alarmed objection to the comparison.


The “learn to pronounce” made it seem pretty clear this was just copypasta, without any effort put into editing. The caps presumably just came from the dictionary’s styling. In this case indicating a more specific meaning in a particular field (theology).

Like glaugh, I appreciated the definition of a new-to-me word appearing inline :)


Yes, I was just trying to pass on something helpful based on my own ignorance.


Understandable. Actually if you Google the word theology is in all caps in the definition so the intention of the comment is unclear.


Yes, that was exactly it. I didn’t know the word and figured others might not.


> implied objection

It is a cut-copy-paste definition of a rarely used word.




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