All Skodas are cars, but not all cars are Skodas. So, all sciences are philosophies but not all philosophies are scientific. Since by its definition a philosophy is a mechanism or syntax by which to define or explain the universe (or part thereof), the differentiation between philosophies is the discipline which governs it. Astrology and astronomy are two philosophies with very different disciplines, thus employing very different methodologies.
You can think that way if you want. As I said earlier, there are many definitions of what is philosophy and what is science and there are no generally accepted ones. But the academic philosophical mainstream doesn't think the way you do. So you started doing philosophy here All I did was simply describe the genesis and roles of philosophy and science from mainstream positions.
In my opinion, it is not practical to call sciences philosophies, firstly because of different methodology. Secondly, because of the different fields of study. Thirdly, because of the problem of demarcation. What is the difference between philosophy and science if science is philosophy? You need to give definitions.
Perhaps you might agree that science is the philosophy of experimentation and observation?
It's not so important to me to distinguish science from philosophy (because I do think they're inextricably linked) as it is to distinguish science from ideology (which I think in some fundamental ways exist in opposition). Perhaps my insistence on describing science as a philosophy is not helpful in this regard.
No. I've already summarised my position, it's not much different from the mainstream. But mixing idialogy, science and philosophy into one is not a productive way of looking at things.
I'm sure the problem is my failure to communicate properly. I'm not seeking to merge them into one, I'm trying to juxtapose them appropriately relative to each other. We may disagree with how they are placed, but the last thing I wish to do is merge them into one.
Words and other concepts are the basis of language and thinking. Their meanings must be common. Otherwise, we fall into confusion. This is one of the meanings of the myth of the Tower of Babel, for example.
I had missed this gem. There, for example, we can't even distinguish what you don't understand? The words of others? Or the one you use. You end up saying things that only make sense to you. Because they escape common sense. I seem to have already told you (kindly) that your speech was confused.
Each of your interventions confirms this a little more. Besides, you admit it yourself.
omg..I don't understand the habit of such answers to questions. I see less and less point in asking you questions.😔
Do you know the difference between what should be and what is?
In your answer to SamH you say what is, I ask you what is, and you answer what should be.
I.e. you are not answering the question. As usual.
Then maybe I didn't understand what you were saying.
There is an aspect of philosophy in science, this is indisputable, for example in scientific method has philosophical concepts of verification and falsification along with Occam's razor.
Do you think that makes science a philosophy?
Then let me be as precise as possible. I am interested in a discussion wherein participants can extend their knowledge and understanding - including mine.
This is not your premise or goal. You are only here to inject confusion and conflation, and you do so obviously, rudely and in bad faith. I am not interested in conversing on that level.
It's not very difficult to understand. One day, in a specific cultural environment (a country, a scientific discipline, a political thought, a philosophy, etc.) we name a thing by a word or we define it by a concept. Then, everyone uses the word or concept in accordance with its meaning and/or definition. It's trivial, but that's how it is. I don't see what can resist understanding?
What Are you trolling me or something? I refuse to believe you're being serious.
I don't want to think badly of your intelligence, so I'll just hope for a joke. Same thing in a few posts from you.
Kinda, maybe? Science was originally (maybe 2K years ago) known as "natural philosophy". So at its heart and for a long time, science and philosophy had at least synonymity. With the "recent" advent of the enlightenment, physical science (or "physics"?) as a philosophy distinguish itself greatly from other philosophies, with enormous changes to its discipline, the development of the scientific method and so on. But it is still derived in (and has a long history of) the principle of seeking to find a truthful way to describe reality, which is a principle it shares with all other philosophies. You yourself said "mother and child", and this I guess is the same as I'm saying. Maybe I'm just saying it badly.
What I obviously did was to sort out your assertions and demonstrate how they were incapable of calling into question the current scientific consensus on the climate issue. Then I noted some of your more serious confusions. No. Science is not a philosophy. And I am fully equipped to confirm this to you.
I understand that this upsets you. But the facts and your words demonstrate by themselves that it is you who are in the amalgamation (between ideology, science and philosophy, for example).
Avraham, as I said, you are a bad faith actor. You claim to have done things you didn't do, say nothing at all, or say nothing of any substance, or say things without an ounce of truth. And so I'm not interested any more in what you say. You're trolling the thread.
Well, that's a much clearer answer for me. We're talking about the same thing, but we're just making different conclusions. I see what you mean, but imao just because one comes from the other doesn't make it the same. About physics, if you mean Aristotle's physics, it is very different from today's physics, Aristotle talked about the 4 elements of which the world is made. He tried to talk about things like gravity and rectilinear motion, but he was fundamentally wrong in many aspects.
He was just trying to learn about the world through observation and drawing his own conclusions about it.
You ask me "who" it depends on? From which person or group of people? What do you want me to answer?
If you ask me "what" it depends on, it's different. But it is not what you asking for ?
I know my level of English is not very good. Did I misunderstand?
I'm asking because of your statement. I don't think so at all. Speaking of philosophical questions and definitions you're saying it's "do not depend on him" I don't know what you mean, that's why I'm asking the question. "Then who does it depend on?" You claim this "do not depend on him" so you should have an opinion on who it depends on.
In my opinion, it is up to each individual to decide what definition to follow regarding broad concepts (like science or philosophy). If the position is consistent and makes sense then there's no problem here. There are no such things as common meanings on broad concepts, if we are not talking about highly specialized terminology. Whether it should or shouldn't be is a different question. We're talking about how it happens in the real world.
Choose one definition over another. Yes. But when they exist. No individual has the power to reassign a new meaning to common concepts (or at his peril).
Contemporary science and philosophy are distinguished in that all science has an object and a method and its purpose is to explain phenomena.
The method of philosophy is the reason and its objective is to apprehend the meaning. The two can never be confused! If there is a philosophy of science, there can be no science of philosophy.
Science sets goals, but it doesn’t make sense. Giving it meaning, means corrupting it. Science then becomes the alibi of ideology. And in no way a "philosophical science". It's silly.
To know how the semantics of terms have been redefined over time, we must question the history of concepts and ideas.
It is not for SamH to decide what science or philosophy is, nor even to confuse them. This will only make sense to him. That was the point of my joke.