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bilby replied to the thread What Is Philosophy?.We have a cultural philosophy that says that science is a way to increase the number of possibilities - to make new things possible that... -
The Japanese also had a philosophy of kamikaze, or Divine Wind, based on shit that had happened some 800 years earlier, and a philosophy...
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bilby replied to the thread What Is Philosophy?.It can be. But need not be. The reason it is in our culture is because of our philosophy. Scientific research can be done without...
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bilby replied to the thread What Is Philosophy?.High tech isn't science. It's technology - albeit very high technology. The clue is in the name.
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bilby replied to the thread What Is Philosophy?.No, that's technology and engineering. Science alone doesn't design or build complex machinery, any more than philosophy does. Indeed...
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Philosophy has been around as long as humans. As soon as immediate needs and wants were met, philosophizing was next. That still seems...
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That depends. Did they form a systematic, orderly approach to thought? If so, then yes, that is philosophy, and what century they did it...
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Well yes. If you randomly define anything you don't like as "not philosophy", then "philosophy" will not describe anything you like...
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There is a whole philosophy of biology. How do we demarcate species? What role does selection vs. drift play in evolution? As I believe...
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bilby replied to the thread Quack Quack Quack Kennedy.Well obviously. During the war, it was to our government's clear benefit to impose mind control over the German and Japanese peoples. Duh.
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bilby replied to the thread What Is Philosophy?.No we can't. :angry:
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Philosophy. In some ways I can’t believe I’m having this discussion. :unsure: I expect better of posters here, tbh.
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bilby replied to the thread What Is Philosophy?.Natural Selection certainly is. It explains how a random assortment of stones of different sizes are sorted by size by a river, or by...
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Logic is classical branch of philosophy. To say it is independent of what it is a branch of is patently absurd.
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bilby replied to the thread 3I/ATLAS: Probably NOT an alien interstellar probe.The setup in the question assumes that we can wait until they are, however long that takes. Sure, but we are looking for an upper bound...
