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Is Idealist Metaphysics the Culprit of Pseudo-science?

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Most of the generation that grew up after we entered this millennium might never know the fact that, as late as the beginning of this millennium, there was an area in all big bookstores in North America which was for books of crystal ball seeing, tarot card reading, fengshui, or other New Ages contents, but tagged as Metaphysics. Correspondingly, when the mainstream academia targeted those contents as the hurdle of popularizing science and called them as pseudo-science since 19th century, metaphysics was often considered as the culprit of the pseudo-science……

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