NLP is phenomenological (embedded in subjectivity) as opposed to objective. It is also pragmatic, or use valuing, as opposed to truth valuing. That is, it is looking from the subjective perspective out and deciding what to include and do based on its use or the results the activity garners in respect to the activity's intent.
It is not trying and failing to be neuroscience. It is a completely different kind of practice, a practice of a different logical type. It is technology proceding from philosophy, an applied philosophy, rather than technology proceeding from science, or an applied science. An old word for applied philosophy as opposed to applied science is an Arte.
Anyone attacking NLP for not being scientific or for being a pseudoscience are misunderstanding what NLP is at a fundamental level. They are judging it by the wrong standards.
[Read more...]It is not trying and failing to be neuroscience. It is a completely different kind of practice, a practice of a different logical type. It is technology proceding from philosophy, an applied philosophy, rather than technology proceeding from science, or an applied science. An old word for applied philosophy as opposed to applied science is an Arte.
Anyone attacking NLP for not being scientific or for being a pseudoscience are misunderstanding what NLP is at a fundamental level. They are judging it by the wrong standards.
Source: http://www.nlpconnections.com/forum/14018-arte-nlp-response-criticism-nlp.html
