Peterdjones comments on Train Philosophers with Pearl and Kahneman, not Plato and Kant - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Peterdjones 05 December 2012 10:52:47AM 2 points [-]

And none before? Kant was immensely influenced by Newton, to take but one example. That was more like 1780

Comment author: Jayson_Virissimo 05 December 2012 11:20:17AM 5 points [-]

Kant was a scientist, even in the modern sense (and a pretty decent one too). For instance, Kant was one of the first proponents of the nebular hypothesis.