Relativistic Scientific Method (Method of Relativity of Science)

A framework acknowledging that scientific findings are always relative to the conditions under which they were produced—the instruments available, the cultural assumptions of the researchers, the historical moment, even the language used to describe them. This isn't the claim that "everything is relative" in the pop sense, but rather that science must account for its own situatedness. A result from 1950s America with male researchers and male subjects isn't universally valid without checking. Relativistic Method doesn't abandon objectivity—it pursues it by factoring in the observer's position, like Einstein did with physics, but applied to knowledge itself.

Relativistic Scientific Method (Method of Relativity of Science) "Your 'universal' finding about human cognition came from studying 200 undergrads at your university. Relativistic Scientific Method says we need to specify: this finding is relative to WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic) populations, not humanity. Context matters."

by Dumu The Void February 23, 2026