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From: Barry Merriman
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 01:39
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 01:39
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In article <exukjb.97.714929511@exu.ericsson.se> exukjb@exu.ericsson.se (ken bell) writes: > > Intellectual parasites indeed! Science was born from womb of philosophy! > Yes, and so what. An offspring can exceed the capabilities of its parent. Essentially, there was a time when math, science and philosophy were all all mixed together. Folks like Newton, Liebnitz, Descarte, etc were of that era. This made it difficult to separate out the effects of these three fields at the time. However, in retospect its clear these folks greatest contributions were as mathematicians and physicists. Their philosophical efforts were of little import, although it does give early philosophy a bit of a boost to be able to claim these great scientists as philosophers. Barry Merriman UCLA Dept. of Math UCLA Inst. for Fusion and Plasma Research barry@math.ucla.edu (Internet; NeXTMail is welcome)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!rutgers!ucla-cs!ucla-ma!news From: barry@arnold.math.ucla.edu (Barry Merriman) Newsgroups: sci.philosophy.tech Subject: Re: Science vs Philosophy of Message-ID: <1992Aug28.013928.4918@math.ucla.edu> Date: 28 Aug 92 01:39:28 GMT References: <exukjb.97.714929511@exu.ericsson.se> Sender: news@math.ucla.edu Organization: UCLA, Mathematics Department Lines: 27