Re: Science, Religion, Philosophy.

From: John Wilkins (john_SPAM_at_wilkins.id.au)
Date: 07/30/04 

Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 13:18:38 +1000

Kenneth Doyle <nobody@notmail.com> wrote:

> This discussion might possibly benefit from the observation that the
> scientific method is a product of philosophy, not of science.

Or perhaps that it evolved from the ways in which science worked best,
once freed from the constraints of apriorism - in other words, not so
much from the positive contributions of philosophy, as the removal of
the negative ones. 

-- 
John Wilkins
john_SPAM@wilkins.id.au   http://wilkins.id.au
"Men mark it when they hit, but do not mark it when they miss" 
                                               - Francis Bacon

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