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Article #7746Re: Science and Philosophy: what is the difference?
From: Sightreader
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 01:39
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 01:39
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"Dio" <dadaismo@tin.it> wrote in message news:psasb.6842$9_.282814@news1.tin.it... > But nowadays what is the main difference between science and philosophy? This is just my pet theory, but I always saw science as "more quantifiable" than philosophy. This makes it a moving definition: stuff that is philosophy now may become science later as our ability to quantify expands. Thus, stuff like physics (which was philosophy before the Greeks) and psychology (which was philosophy until Freud, I think) were once philosophy, but eventually got quantifiable enough for someone to arbitrarily stamp them as a "science". I kinda reminds me of the definition of "artficial intelligence" in computers. The technology that lets computers understand the computer programs everyone writes used to be to this "pi in the sky" attempt to let people talk to computers. Now it's just a mundane part of compilers. Hey, I wonder if the reverse is true? I don't know physics, but I hear that this Heisenberg thing says that we don't really know what goes on at a sufficiently small level, and question of whether things down there act just as rationally as they do at a bigger level is more a philosophical issue than a scientific one. Would that be an example of something that was considered a science moving back into philosophy?
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