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From: Steve Dekorte <dekorte@slip.net>
Subject: Re: Philosophers
Date: 1998/01/29
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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.

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Steve Dekorte