From: ed@somewhere.in.the.uk   
      
   D wrote:   
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   > On Fri, 24 Jan 2025, Ed Cryer wrote:   
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   >> 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.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> 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   
   >   
   > So you would not say that the fact that philosophers no longer debate   
   > how many angels fit on the head of a pin is progress? Or perhaps it is   
   > more due to progress in science?   
      
   British philosophers love using foreign words; especially German ones.   
   Let's try a "Gedankenexperiment".   
      
   A university has three departments side by side; philosophy, theology,   
   physics.   
   A notice appears on a signboard outside, saying "Tonight's speaker will   
   talk about how many angels ..... etc.   
      
   In which dept would you take a seat?   
      
      
      
   Ed   
      
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