TheAncientGeek comments on Dark Side Epistemology - Less Wrong

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Comment author: TheAncientGeek 03 September 2014 05:30:19PM 0 points [-]

Scientists do not concern themselves with what philosophers say about science -- it is my experience that they are actively contemptuous of such.

These comments are largely true

Yet science goes on. Strange, isn't it? It's almost as though the philosophers didn't know what they were talking about.

These comments don't follow from the above. Yes,scientists dont need philosophers to tell them how to science, which they can do on the riding-a-bike basis. That doesn't mean philosophers are wrong. Birds don't need scientists to tell them how to fly..doesn't mean the scientists are wrong.