From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Wed Jun 20 2001 - 03:08:06 MDT
"Alex F. Bokov" wrote:
>
> Let me repeat myself, concisely this time:
>
> Philosophy that strays too far from factual knowledge
> flirts with meaninglessness and uselessness.
>
> I'm not saying that 'pure' philosophy is a joke. I'm
> saying it's a punchline bereft of a joke.
Good philosophy is always tied or able to be tied to the facts
of reality securely and aids in making sense of those facts,
deriving knowledge from them, evaluating them and integrating
new knowledge with existing knowledge. Philosophy that doesn't
do this may be an interesting mathematical/logical game but it
is not in my estimation, good or particularly useful philosophy.
- samantha
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