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I suppose there is always a rationale for failure. Nobodies fault....next event please.

He must realize that he can end up looking like a fool? So why risk it? Because he thinks the pay-off would be huge if he is right? What are the odds?

Well worth watching.

Slavery played a part. With cheap labour readily available to do the hard work, no unions, no compensation, no sick pay, holiday pay, leave loading or rostered days off, there was no great incentive to mechanize, where social and economic conditions shaped the attitudes and thoughts of the...

Not so tough now, Sunshine.

What could go wrong?

High tech, space exploration, etc, is the result of scientific research. For instance, the moon landings duing the sixties brought about many advances in technology. The moon landings, in turn, would not have been possible without scienctific research. The relationship between science and...

I meant that science has been the foundation of our advances in technology. I don't mean, stonemasonry, building boats or bridges - which we have had for millennia - but advancement in high tech, the stuff that put man on the moon and rovers on Mars....which takes more than a drawing board...

The "love of wisdom/philosophy" alone doesn't design and build complex machinery, computers, satellites, rovers.....for that you need a method, and that method is called science. The ancient Greeks did well enough with philosophy, but languished in science. Had social conditions been...

I said prehistoric times because this period is not generally considered to be when philosophy was developed, that this was not a time for philosophy or philosophers. We tend to think of the Greeks and the progress they made in the field.

We could nod our heads and congratulate ourselves.

Just trying to sort out what may or may not be defined as philosophy. For instance, people in prehistoric times were intelligent and had the ability to think and act logically, but can that ability be defined as philosophy? Were they philosophers? Or is it just a matter of natural...

But biology and evolution does happen independently of evolutionary theory....no? I think that's where the distinction lies, and what I'm trying to get at.

It's a discussion forum. We don't need to nod our heads in unison. We can argue. ;)

It is a branch of philosophy in the sense that philosophy uses logic, but if logic is "characterized as the study of truths based completely on the meanings of the terms they contain," it is independent of philosophical inquiry, where for instance, making a selection based on a set of criteria...