Other ways of knowing

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Other (or non-scientific) ways of knowing can be achieved by various means. They include, but are not limited to:

  • Studying religious books such as the Torah, the Qur'an, the Tao Te Ching, or the Bible.
  • Reading inspirational books such as those by Kahlil Gibran or Deepak Chopra, or anything with a title that starts "Zen and the Art of...".
  • Taking drugs such as LSD, peyote, psilocybin, or cannabis.
  • Contemplating one's own inner, or emotional, state.
  • Investigating the philosophies of indigenous peoples.
  • Divination
  • Revelation
  • Guessing
  • Asking someone
  • Tabloids

More-or-less by definition "Other ways of knowing" cannot be falsified, and cannot be independently replicated, and as such are not scientific.

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