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minus-squareJake Farm@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down8·8 days agoMath is an abstraction, a language. That is like saying words are a science and novel use of words are scientific break throughs. Math is also logic, so is philosophy a science?
minus-squareAnarchoEngineer@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 days agoOther way around. All sciences are philosophy: the “love of knowledge”
Math is an abstraction, a language. That is like saying words are a science and novel use of words are scientific break throughs. Math is also logic, so is philosophy a science?
Other way around. All sciences are philosophy: the “love of knowledge”