Re: Science, Religion, Philosophy.

From: Kenneth Doyle (nobody_at_notmail.com)
Date: 07/30/04 

Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 03:30:36 GMT

john_SPAM@wilkins.id.au (John Wilkins) wrote in
news:1ghqnjq.vmc0kquzhihgN%john_SPAM@wilkins.id.au:

> 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.

I suppose that's possible, but I don't think Popper or Kuhn (for example)
would agree. 

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