Naive empiricism masks dogmatism by claiming scientific method

Evidence

It would also, in certain ways, be useful to prepare a critique of a number of tendencies within the philosophy of praxis, tendencies which because of their sheer crudeness would probably prove among the most widespread. This would take the same form as the critique that modern historicism has made of the old historical method and old-fashioned philology, which have led to the growth of naive forms of dogmatism and replaced interpretations and historical construction with external description and the cataloguing of unevaluated sources put together often in a disordered and incoherent way. The strength of these publications consisted for the most part of a kind of dogmatic mysticism which had grown up and become popularised and which expressed itself in the unjustified claim to be followers of the historical method and of science. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1478

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: The insight that crudeness and dogmatic mysticism are the most widespread self-declared followers of a method — how popularity tracks misunderstanding — is dense and generalizable far beyond Marxism to any orthodox tradition.
• XREF: connects to: Dogmatism alone distinguishes worthy goals from mere methods of achieving them. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 2403