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Originally Posted by Louie Dawgs
(Post 953251)
This is not entirely true.
Science is a very broad term, and desires to explain the phenomena of the universe through testable means.
Philosophy helps to give meaning to science, and vice versa, but it neither requires the other. A guy stuck on a deserted island can perform some measure of science in order to understand how to build a bigger bonfire without any philosophical inclinations.
Likewise, someone can build an entire philosophical system without doing any science, ever reading a scientific textbook, or knowing a single thing about science.
They are not symbiotic.
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In their earliest forms, did not philosophy facilitate science? Also, to understand, must one not question? Is curiosity not one of the foundational attributes of Philosophy? Wouldn't, then, the questions that the man on the deserted island were to ask be philosophical in nature? |
