The Principles of our Soceity
§1: To work from
Academic Standards.
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We emphasis the
importance of using Academic Standards. This generally means that all
information submitted, exchanged and displayed on h-e-r-m-e-s.org should
make use of: argumentative thinking and discourse based on valid empirical
sources, the use of references and notes, the use of precision and technical
terminology, and thus the use of methodology. Pure
postulates are not valued unless they are clearly presented as ideas to
be used in the construction of a working hypothesis.
§2: To avoid judgments grounded
on unsound pre-conceptions.
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We seek to avoid
a judgmental attitude which is unsound due to invalid pre-conceptions
or which is stiff, static and inflexible. This means that ungrounded religionism,
dogmatism, scepticism, criticism and reductionism is to be avoided. We
find an open mind, keeping an attitude that there is still something new
to be learnt even though we either do not understand it or do not agree
with it, to be the general ideal and foundation of judgments within our
society.
§3: To embrace the new and honour
the old.
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As a research society
we seek to continually reach and embrace new perspectives on the object
of our research without clinging to the past, however, we at the same
time honour and acknowledge that without the endeavours of old the foundation
of the new would crumble to dust; or as Sir Isaac Newton stated in a letter
to Hooke dated 5 February 1676: "If I have seen further it is
by standing on the shoulders of Giants".
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