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From: The Goobers <docdwarf@erols.com>
Subject: Re: Philosophers
Date: 1998/01/29
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Steve Dekorte wrote:
> 
> In comp.lang.smalltalk The Goobers <docdwarf@erols.com> wrote:
> > Mike Whiten wrote:
> > > Nick Roberts wrote:
> > > Philosophy is what scientists do in their spare time.
> 
> > 'Scientists'?  What are those... oh, wait a minute, I see... you mean
> > 'natural philosophers'!
> 
> > (For the unaware... up until the late 18th century what we now call
> > 'scientists' were called 'natural philosophers'.
> 
> And scince the early 20th century, philosophy was reduced to deciding
> if any given statement should be sorted into the empirical sciences or
> mathematics and nothing more.

I disagree, of course... as Wittgenstein would say, 'Compare these two
uses of the imperative: 'Raise your arm over your head!' and 'Laugh
heartily at this joke!''... or, similarly, 'Why is it that we do not
look at a child and say 'How wonderful!  Today he hoped, for the first
time!'...

... or, as the Existentialists would say, 'Who cares?  If I can do the
time then I'll do the crime.'

DD