How do you compare these things in their attempts to seek knowledge about the world? Is science a part of philosophy? Is science an entirely different method of seeking knowledge about the world? Does religion have any meaningful role to play in seeking knowledge about the world?
Without using labels, I imagine humans first began understanding the world through a lot of storytelling and basic intuition, with little data to aid them. From there they began to focus on logic and discovered much, but tried to explain far too much with it, such as why things fall to the ground. Eventually they started to focus on collecting data to fuel their logic, by creating observational tools like telescopes and constructing well measured experiments like Galieo. — Malice
I heard someone say "science is a wholly-owned subsidiary of materialism" — TheMadFool
if that's true, it appears to be, then the immaterial world, if such exists, is open to other approaches like religion, philosophy, etc. — TheMadFool
The most widely-accepted meaning of existence is that which can be perceived through the senses or instruments. This view of existence, that only the physical exists, is relatively new as evidenced by the fact that religion is older than science. — TheMadFool
it's possible that there's more to this universe than just that which is perceivable through the senses and their extensions, instruments. After all who's to say that we're in possession of the full complement of senses; maybe there's a sense that we're missing, a sense that allows us to perceive the immaterial. — TheMadFool
How do you compare these things in their attempts to seek knowledge about the world? Is science a part of philosophy? Is science an entirely different method of seeking knowledge about the world? Does religion have any meaningful role to play in seeking knowledge about the world? — Malice
Without using labels, I imagine humans first began understanding the world through a lot of storytelling and basic intuition, with little data to aid them. From there they began to focus on logic and discovered much, but tried to explain far too much with it, such as why things fall to the ground. Eventually they started to focus on collecting data to fuel their logic, by creating observational tools like telescopes and constructing well measured experiments like Galieo. — Malice
Is science a part of philosophy? — Malice
Is science an entirely different method of seeking knowledge about the world? — Malice
As regards the definition of philosophy and its demarcation from other fields [...] While it is a contentious position within the field of philosophy to conclude (as I do) that it is never warranted to appeal to faith, it is nevertheless generally accepted that philosophy as an activity characteristically differs from religion as an activity by not appealing to faith to support philosophical positions themselves, even if one of those positions should turn out to be that appeals to faith are sometimes acceptable.
But although philosophy relies only upon reason or evidence to reach its conclusions, not faith, it can also be demarcated from the physical sciences in that philosophy as an activity does not appeal to empirical observation either, even though a philosopher may conclude (as I do) that empirical observation is the correct way to reach conclusions about reality. It is precisely when one transitions from using empirical observation to support some conclusion, to reasoning about why or whether something like empirical observation (or faith, or so on) is the correct thing to appeal to at all, that one transitions from doing science to doing philosophy. — The Codex Quarentis: Metaphilosophy
Is science a part of philosophy? — Malice
Is science an entirely different method of seeking knowledge about the world? — Malice
Does religion have any meaningful role to play in seeking knowledge about the world? — Malice
Knowledge is a justified (true?) belief.How do you compare these things in their attempts to seek knowledge about the world? Is science a part of philosophy? Is science an entirely different method of seeking knowledge about the world? Does religion have any meaningful role to play in seeking knowledge about the world? — Malice
Faith does not lead to knowledge because faith is belief without justification — Harry Hindu
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