Other ways of knowing
From RationalWiki
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.
