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>From: christo@psych.toronto.edu (Christopher Green)
Subject: Re: Philosophy not empirical?
Message-ID: <1992Feb6.184000.8717@psych.toronto.edu>
Organization: Department of Psychology, University of Toronto
References: <1992Feb6.032920.11333@a.cs.okstate.edu>
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1992 18:40:00 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.
>> 
Funny, I thought that empiricism itself is a philosophical position.
To go just a touch etymological on you, philosophy means "love of wisdom"
Surely it would not be wise to throw out all contingent facts (all of which
are, by definition, empirical). I think you confused rationalism with the
whole of philosophy. After all, weren't early scientists called "natural
philosophers"?

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Christopher D. Green                christo@psych.toronto.edu
Psychology Department               cgreen@lake.scar.utoronto.ca
University of Toronto
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