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   On Fri, 24 Jan 2025, Ed Cryer wrote:   
      
   > D wrote:   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> On Thu, 23 Jan 2025, Ed Cryer wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> 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   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> 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?   
      
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