wnoise comments on Open Thread: July 2010, Part 2 - Less Wrong

6 Post author: Alicorn 09 July 2010 06:54AM

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Comment author: wnoise 09 July 2010 08:55:55PM 4 points [-]

I think philosophy is a similar case. Physics used to be squarely in philosophy, until it was no longer a confused mess, but actually useful. Linguistics too used to be considered a branch of philosophy.

Comment author: Blueberry 09 July 2010 08:58:37PM 3 points [-]

As did economics.