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"Watson & Parisi" <niche@rcn.com> wrote in message news:<bortg7$1r7$1@bob.news.rcn.net>...
> "Harry Conover" <hhc314@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:7ce4e226.0311111439.2ea5baff@posting.google.com...
> > "Dio" <dadaismo@tin.it> wrote in message
>  news:<psasb.6842$9_.282814@news1.tin.it>...
> > > Science and philosophy (or epistemology) have been very important for
>  our
> > > knowledge.
> > > But nowadays what is the main difference between science and philosophy?
> > >
> > > What do you think about?
> > >
> >
> > I think that no useful results have ever emerged from philosophy,
> > hence philosophy is closely akin to metal masturbation.
> >
> > If you believe I'm wrong, please provide an example.
> >
> >                                                   Harry C.
> 
> The example is science itself. Empiricism is one epistemological philosophy
> among others, and the scientific method is its application. Science didn't
> spring fully armed from the head of Zeus, you know. It evolved out of
> philosophy, which includes the philosophy of science.
> 
> Robert.


And modern plumbing didn't spring fully armed from the head of Zeus,
either. It also evolved out of philosophy, inasmuch as there must be a
philosophy of plumbing, yes? So QED.

Alas, however, to talk about the philosophy of plumbing is to stretch
the word "philosophy" far past the purposes for which it was invented,
and in which, in modern times, it is used. Therefore your argument
needs reexamination.

SBH