From: ed@somewhere.in.the.uk   
      
   D wrote:   
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   > On Thu, 23 Jan 2025, Ed Cryer wrote:   
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   >> The word is Greek; it means "love of wisdom".   
   >> Ancient philosophers pursued knowledge and understanding. They   
   >> included what we'd call "science", but over the ages such things have   
   >> been stripped off and rebranded as the "empirical sciences".   
   >> Philosophy is left with not much more than an inquiry into the very   
   >> tools of understanding. Reason itself.   
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   >> Ed   
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   > Would you say there can ever be progress in philosophy?   
      
   I think not. It gets added unto over the ages; e.g. philosophy of   
   science, linguistic analysis. But I agree with your underlying supposition.   
      
   Even so, I think it has its uses. It makes you aware of the limits of   
   human understanding; of how much that we accept as truth is   
   fundamentally flawed.   
      
   Ed   
      
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)