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From: sarge@thirdi.UUCP (Sarge Gerbode)
Newsgroups: sci.philosophy.tech
Subject: Re: What is philosophy?
Message-ID: <76@thirdi.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 3-Aug-87 01:53:12 EDT
Article-I.D.: thirdi.76
Posted: Mon Aug  3 01:53:12 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 4-Aug-87 01:06:26 EDT
References: <3219@eagle.ukc.ac.uk> <825@klipper.cs.vu.nl>
Reply-To: sarge@thirdi.UUCP (Sarge Gerbode)
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Organization: Institute for Research in Metapsychology
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Keywords: science philosophy empiricism methodology
Summary: Don't have a definition yet.

In article <2279@mmintl.UUCP> franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams) writes:
>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.

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

You are right, of course.  I did not mean to give a *definition* of philosophy
or science, just a means for differentiating the two.  See my reply to Biep.

If someone wants to be brave and proffer a definition of philosophy, I'm all
for it!
-- 
"Absolute knowledge means never having to change your mind."

Sarge Gerbode
Institute for Research in Metapsychology
950 Guinda St.
Palo Alto, CA 94301
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