http://talkfreethought.org/showthread.php?51-Math-Subforum&p=8753#post8753
Originally Posted by steve_bnk
Originally Posted by Underseer
Originally Posted by beero1000
Personally, I'd rather see it with the science boards. Currently, most of the math type posts on FRDB go into Science Discussions anyway.
Why? Math falls under idealism/rationalism, whereas science comes from evidence-based epistemologies. They're totally different branches of philosophy.
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Mathematicians invent mathematics.
Philosophers invent -isms.
Meaningless distinction. The vast majority of academic disciplines are technically branches of philosophy.
A tpic debated on the old forum.
Some take a position that philosophy functions as some collective agency that created science and other disciplines.
The term philosophy itself is ill defined.
Love of knowledge, search forknowledge, search for wisdom? Search for knowledge certainlyencompasses most everything, however the assertion that all fallsunder some function called philosophy is false.
Personally, I'd rather see it with the science boards. Currently, most of the math type posts on FRDB go into Science Discussions anyway.
Why? Math falls under idealism/rationalism, whereas science comes from evidence-based epistemologies. They're totally different branches of philosophy.
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Mathematicians invent mathematics.
Philosophers invent -isms.
Meaningless distinction. The vast majority of academic disciplines are technically branches of philosophy.
A tpic debated on the old forum.
Some take a position that philosophy functions as some collective agency that created science and other disciplines.
The term philosophy itself is ill defined.
Love of knowledge, search forknowledge, search for wisdom? Search for knowledge certainlyencompasses most everything, however the assertion that all fallsunder some function called philosophy is false.