I can't wrap my head around how so many intelligent people can come to so many different conclusions within the world of philosophy. Is philosophy not rigorous, logical and thorough? Are "thinkers" not looking for the same thing? How does it differ from the physical sciences, where, generally, something is proven and everyone will fall into line? — Edward
I can't wrap my head around how so many intelligent people can come to so many different conclusions within the world of philosophy. Is philosophy not rigorous, logical and thorough? Are "thinkers" not looking for the same thing? — Edward
A story scientists tend to tell themselves is that science is about fact and philosophy about opinion. Until you get to philosophers of science like Thomas Kuhn, for whom scientific change involves revolutions in theoretical conventions that imply a hopeless entanglement of fact and interpretation from the bottom up. — Joshs
You don't think that the very foundation of modern empirical science is set of (unexamined) metaphysical assumptions? — Joshs
A story scientists tend to tell themselves is that science is about fact and philosophy about opinion. Until you get to philosophers of science like Thomas Kuhn, for whom scientific change involves revolutions in theoretical conventions that imply a hopeless entanglement of fact and interpretation from the bottom up.
You don't think that the very foundation of modern empirical science is set of (unexamined) metaphysical assumptions? And that 'progress' in science amounts to a continual transformation in those metaphysical assumptions? — Joshs
Surely the vast majority of discourse is simply down to people sifting through words and the meaning attached to them? — Edward
I can't wrap my head around how so many intelligent people can come to so many different conclusions within the world of philosophy. — Edward
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