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   On Fri, 24 Jan 2025, Ed Cryer wrote:   
      
   > 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.   
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   >>>>> Ed   
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   >>>> Would you say there can ever be progress in philosophy?   
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   >>> 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.   
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   >>> Ed   
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   >> 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?   
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   > British philosophers love using foreign words; especially German ones.   
   > Let's try a "Gedankenexperiment".   
      
   I am fluent in german but I find it strange that philosophers love to mix   
   in german and latin.   
      
   > 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.   
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   > In which dept would you take a seat?   
      
   Physics! I would be very interested to hear what physicists have to say   
   about the subject.   
      
   At the risk of showing my hand, I didn't think theology departments still   
   existed in serious universities.   
      
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