Science is a particular methodology of empiricist natural philosophy — Kenosha Kid
The empiricist concept of experience... was intended as a device to close the gap between seems and is, between appearance and reality. It was to close this gap by making every experiencing subject a closed realm; there is to be nothing beyond my experience for me to compare my experience with, so that the contrast between seems to me and is in fact can never be formulated. ...
By contrast, natural scientific concepts of observation and experiment were intended to enlarge the distance between seems and is. The lenses of the telescope and microscope are given priority over the lenses of the eye... Natural science teaches us to attend to some experiences rather than to others and only to those when they have been cast into the proper form for scientific attention.
I think it is quite controversial to place science within empiricism. — Garth
it is quite controversial to place science within empiricism — Garth
it feasible, to try to find loose ends to join the science with philosophy. Science makes an effort to make sense of various phenomena.Is science a natural philosophy? — rohit29
You can't have an opinion about what consensus is. — Kenosha Kid
Philosophical empiricism arose in response to the challenge presented by theoretical mathematical science to classical philosophy. — magritte
You said "Empirical natural philosophy" which I interpreted to mean "empiricism". And someone obviously cares what I think since you and another person quoted me :wink: — Garth
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