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Originally Posted by sjastro
Politics and logic are mutually exclusive. The Rennaisance gave birth to the Scientific Method, but an unfortunate gift from the same period is Machiavellianism to which politicians adhere to.
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I think this is a terminology/label difference only.
The area of overlap is surely, the truth.
If there is no truth, ie: that there is no-one who has the actual, hard story of it all, then the difference between Machiavellianism and logic disappears.
As a 'random' example: "Is there exo-life out there ?"
or:
"Did the Big Bang happen ?"
No one knows … so there is no truth, so there is no distinction between Machiavellianism and 'scientific' logic .. its a matter of 'personal taste' (to quote Sir Ed .. Witten, that is …)
Theory, with supporting empirical evidence, would then seem to be the differentiator, I guess.
Cheers