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I often wondered if such a science could exist and I think it could. But this seems to go against a truth of religion which is that only God can know the particular thoughts of men at particular times. But I would say that a science of mind or thought, would be able to predict what thoughts people had only in so far as these thoughts are instances of universal propositions established through the said science. This psychology could then predict human thoughts like one predicts the weather -we could know the future or present thoughts of people but we couldn’t, strictly speaking, predict every particular thought in the same way that we can’t predict every particular storm like God could. And this is not even possible in principle, since contingent future events (like thoughts or weather) are not knowable in principle but can only be approximated by a science. That is, we can know that a storm must occur but we don’t know when and we are dependent on empirical research to see if the conditions of such a storm exist. Likewise we are dependent on the knowledge of the person to see if conditions are met such that he will have a particular thought. This is scientific and not overly obsessed with its own natural lack of power to know the future in the same way God does -something impossible w/ anyone anyways.
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