TheAncientGeek comments on [LINK] Physicist Carlo Rovelli on Modern Physics Research - Less Wrong

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Comment author: TheAncientGeek 27 August 2014 03:06:24PM 2 points [-]

It's a little more complicated than about the real world or not. Truth about the real world requires empirical confirmation of theories: theories require concepts, ways of expressing concepts, and so on. Science specialises in some of those areas, philosophy in others.

To look at it another way, is this site about reality? Is Clippie real? Are utility functions?