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Inside Scientology: The Story of America's Most Secretive Religion
by Janet Reitman (Goodreads Author)
by Janet Reitman (Goodreads Author)
I started reading this book last night. In the introduction Ms. Reitman writes that "Scientology" means the "study of truth". No, it does not. It means the study of knowledge. Hubbard's coinage was pathetically redundant for "epistemology" had existed in the English Language for centuries. You'd think that an author who spends years researching a "religion" would find the time to look up what the title of her subject actually means. Geez.
Oh, Ms. Reitman thinks the German weekly magazine Der Spiegel is a newspaper. Yes, I am nitpicking.
Oh, Ms. Reitman thinks the German weekly magazine Der Spiegel is a newspaper. Yes, I am nitpicking.
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Jul 10, 2011 10:48pm
Not exactly. It means knowing how to know.
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Yes, that according to Ms. Reitman is the scientologist definition, but the study of anything is the study of how it works. Biology is the study of how life works, for instance. Psychology studies the workings of the soul, and so forth. Epistemology is the study of knowledge and as such it studies how we know what we know. So, your definition is implied. "Scientology" remains a redundant term.
