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[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The amount of "science fans" dismissing philosophy is ridiculous

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I don't see this as being dismissive of philosophy at all. Science has always stood on the shoulders of philosophy. In the context of the meme, it established the possibility of the black cat existing. It's the baseline. Science then used tools to test the idea, while metaphysics and theology are off somewhere making unfalsifiable claims.

Judging by some of the responses, I'm in the minority with this interpretation.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

If it puts us in a minority to regard scientific achievement as owing a debt of gratitude to epistemology and empiricism, not to mention ethics and countless other branches of study that cannot be taken for granted, then so be it. To take science on its own as merely a self evident and wholly objective practice solely fit for solving problems and creating better technologies is as boring as it is anti intellectual.