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10 Post author: lukeprog 20 September 2011 03:10PM

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Comment author: scientism 20 September 2011 07:20:04PM 1 point [-]

No. To be clear, I meant that scientists are adopting the same hostility to traditional philosophy that some popular naturalistic philosophers do. I'm not sure what instruments you mean.

Comment author: [deleted] 20 September 2011 09:06:06PM 1 point [-]

Instruments like the telescope, microscope, satellite, fMRI, all render obsolete old maps, usually narrative ones.

I think I might be making a trite point, so I'll bow out now.