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From: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams)
Newsgroups: sci.philosophy.tech
Subject: What is philosophy?
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Date: Fri, 31-Jul-87 18:09:55 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul 31 18:09:55 1987
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Keywords: science philosophy empiricism methodology

[Not food]

In article <71@thirdi.UUCP> sarge@thirdi.UUCP (Sarge Gerbode) writes:
|I like my criterion for differentiating philosophy and science:
|Philosophy has the purpose of arriving at non-empirical truths; science has
|the purpose of arriving at empirical truths.
|
|I await with interest a serious challenge to this notion.

Does this mean that introspection is a branch of philosophy?  It certainly
has the purpose of arriving at non-empirical truths.

I will also note that, by this definition, when "natural philosophy" became
"science", this did not represent a maturing of the discipline, but a
recognition of its separate nature (or, perhaps, a redefinition of the word
"philosophy").  This is not necessarily wrong, but I think it needs some
defense.
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