[Nasrudith]

There is a difference between non-repeatable in same state and non-scientific. Applying absolute standards of rigor is ironically also unscientific.

We know that hyperinflation is a way to screw over an economy utterly. It can and will fail and in the best case be the equivalent of dissolving the currency and going bankrupt.

The most benign form of it that may not techically count would involve massive growth as well and the devaluation wouldn't be a pathology but a reflection that yes, a well honed spear, flint knives, a badket, and a few carved bone pieces of jewelry may have been respectable wealth for nomadic hunter-gathers but aren't really worth anything compared to even the contents of a jalopy in the great depression.

Just a steel knife or pot would be grand artifacts because they are better in performance than anything else they could find.

That their old currency isn't worth anything is reflective of the fact that past production has been rendered obsolete and the old goods are worth little.

[neokantian]

> There is a difference between non-repeatable in same state and non-scientific.

No, there isn't.

> Applying absolute standards of rigor is ironically also unscientific.

The rules governing science are not determined by science itself. Science experimentally tests propositions about facts. Rules about science are propositions about other propositions. Hence, science has absolutely nothing to say about its own rules. Therefore, propositions about the scientific method are necessarily unscientific.