![]() ![]() ![]() Any rule that says they are scientists only if they make one set of factual claims but not when they make another set of factual claims divides these thinkers into two halves that aren't meant to be contradictory. That's why astronomers and astrologers populated medical schools and governments, advising people on what the heavens signalled was to come on Earth.Įven famed astronomers Galileo and Kepler practised astrology. After all, knowing where the planets were relative to the stars was necessary to make accurate predictions about how their locations influenced human affairs. To us, that makes astrology sound a lot like a set of scientific beliefs.įor a very long time, until the 17th or 18th century, astronomy and astrology were practised side by side. ![]() In this sense, astrologers, like astronomers, make factual claims about the world. Factual claims are true or false descriptions of the world (Joe is 1 metre tall) as opposed to descriptions of how we define things (1 metre is 1,000 milimetres). Science, in essence, involves making and testing factual claims about the world. ![]()
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