From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 111d6b,328622178ec8b832 X-Google-Attributes: gid111d6b,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,8775b19e3c68a5dc X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,a03ae7f4e53958e1 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,a03ae7f4e53958e1 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 1094ba,a03ae7f4e53958e1 X-Google-Attributes: gid1094ba,public X-Google-Thread: 10d15b,328622178ec8b832 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d15b,public X-Google-Thread: 114809,a03ae7f4e53958e1 X-Google-Attributes: gid114809,public From: moron@Glue.umd.edu (Warren B. Focke) Subject: Re: Philosophers Date: 1998/01/28 Message-ID: <6ao78n$52r@mrpibb.eng.umd.edu>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 320305799 References: <67et6o$dql@bgtnsc03.worldnet.att.net> Organization: Project GLUE, University of Maryland, College Park, MD Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.misc,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.fortran,comp.lang.cobol,comp.lang.smalltalk,comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-01-28T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: The Goobers said: > >'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'. For the aware... muse >over the difference between 'philos sophos' and 'scire') > What most people call scientists, anyway. I'll argue that a natural philosopher studies "nature", while a scientist seeks truth through the scientific method. Orthogonal issues, really. Many scientists are natural philosophers. Appallingly few natural philosophers are scientists. Warren Focke warren@wam.umd.edu