From: Emlyn (emlyn@one.net.au)
Date: Tue Dec 26 2000 - 10:44:17 MST
Sorry guys... this was supposed to be ironic. I forget the limitations of
the medium!
Emlyn
----- Original Message -----
From: "Anders Sandberg" <asa@nada.kth.se>
To: <extropians@extropy.org>
Sent: Saturday, December 23, 2000 11:48 PM
Subject: Re: Philosophy: It doesn't suck so bad we can't ignore it
> "Emlyn" <emlyn@one.net.au> writes:
>
> > Lucky science isn't grounded in philosophy, or we'd all be up the creek.
>
> Oh dear, science largely developed from philosophy and if you want to
> read up on the foundations of science you go to the philosophy
> bookshelves rather than the science ones...
>
> (Actually, pancritical rationalism in some sense makes scientific
> foundations at somewhat empirical, but you still have to do some
> philosophical thinking there)
>
>
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