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From: ajs8@ccp.uchicago.edu (Adam Jeremy Schorr)
Subject: Re: Does AI make philosophy obsolete?
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Marcel Weiher (marcel@cs.tu-berlin.de) wrote:

: Philosophical questions are usually those that simply cannot
: be approached by scientific methods

Only if you mean positivist/empiricist scientific methods. The process of 
answering a philsophical question by deriving the set of answers that 
might be given and narrowing it down one by one to the set of possile 
answers is very scientific. Just because philosophers tend not to use 
beakers and electron microscopes does not mean that what they do is any 
less scientific.
