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- From: pmsc13sg@UMASSD.EDU (Stephen Grossman)
- Newsgroups: sci.philosophy.tech
- Subject: Philosophy causes science
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- Date: 12 Jan 93 22:37:19 GMT
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- The important issue of the philosophy-science relation has narrowed to the
- theory-observation relation. Yet, curiously enough, philosophical issues are
- being discussed because the proper way to understand science always widens to
- philosophy. One may use Aristotle, the philosophical inventor or discoverer of
- science, or Wittgenstein, the destroyer of science. Science is the application
- of philosophical knowledge such as reality, order, identity, entity, event,
- causality, condition, occasion, experience, logic, science, system, hypothesis,
- deduction, induction, proof, truth. falsity, experiment. The rational Greeks
- invented science and modern nihilists are destroying it. Those who refuse to
- use a philosophical perspective on science don't even know its happening.
- One does not observe "description" in a lab. One observes entities (or,
- if you must, events) which, then, one wants to describe. But where did
- "description" (or any other philosphical fact) come from???
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- "In that world, you'll be able to rise in the morning with the spirit
- you had known in your childhood: that spirit of eagerness, adventure and cer-
- tainty which comes from dealing with a rational universe."
- AYN RAND
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- Stephen Grossman <PMSC13SG@UMASSD.EDU>
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