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soulofmischieftoday at 4:32 PM1 replyview on HN

True, the nature of these two concepts means both that philosophy is a science, and science is a philosophy.


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indoordin0saurtoday at 4:51 PM

Hmmm... I think it's still stricter to consider Science a philosophy than the other way around. It's the belief (and an extremely useful and successful one) that the nature of the world can be understood through observation, experiment and deducing mathematical relationships between things. There branches of philosophy that are not strictly scientific, but nothing in Science that is doesn't rely on the fundamental philosophical principle of empiricism.

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