Technoguyrob comments on Philosophy: A Diseased Discipline - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Technoguyrob 03 October 2011 04:44:12AM 0 points [-]

Are you suggesting that philosophy lies in the orthogonal complement to science and potential science (the questions science is believed to be capable of eventually answering)?

Comment author: prase 04 October 2011 11:07:36AM 2 points [-]

I am suggesting that the label philosophical is usually attached to problems where we have no agreed upon methodology of investigation. Therefore whether a question belongs to philosophy or science isn't defined solely by its objective properties, but also by our knowledge, and as our knowledge grows the formerly philosophical question is more likely to move into "science" category. The point thus was that potential science isn't orthogonal to philosophy, on the contrary, I have expressed belief that those categories may be identical (when nonsensical parts of philosophy are excluded).

On the other hand, I assume philosophy and actual (in contrast to potential) science are disjoint. This is just how the words are used.