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>From: onstott@a.cs.okstate.edu (ONSTOTT CHARLES OR)
Subject: Philosophy not empirical?
Message-ID: <1992Feb6.032920.11333@a.cs.okstate.edu>
Summary:  Who says?
Organization: Oklahoma State University, Computer Science, Stillwater
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 92 03:29:20 GMT

>From article <1992Feb03.053748.28400@convex.com>, by cash@convex.com (Peter Cash):
> Philosophy is not an _empirical_ endeavor: any question that can be decided
> by an experiment is not a philosophical question, and is in the realm of
> science.
> 
  Philosophy is not an empirical endeavor?  Tell Socratese, Plato, Aristotle,
and all of the modern empericists this.  Perhaps the current approach to 
philosophy may not be as emperical; but this doesn't mean that philosophy
isn't an empircal endeavor unless you would have it that all of the above
were scientists?  Even Frege and Russell where emperical to a certain 
degree.  After all, how can a predicate calculus fail to account for
"The Present King of France is Bald" without emperical knowlede of such.
On the contrary, I think you are quite wrong; philosophy is emperical.

  I think that the difference between philosophy and science isn't 
in empirical approaches; it's in paradigmatic approaches.  

BCnya,
  Charles O. Onstott, III

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"The most abstract system of philosophy is, in its method and purpose, 
nothing more than an extremely ingenious combination of natural sounds."
                                              -- Carl G. Jung
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