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Jon_S comments on [LINK] Why Talk to Philosophers: Physicist Sean Carroll Discusses "Common Misunderstandings" about Philosophy - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Jon_S 29 June 2014 11:44:54PM 1 point [-]

So your argument is philosophy doesn't provide real contributions and your criterion for a "real contribution" is falsifiability. You do realize that the person who identified falsifiability as the demarcation between science and non-science was Karl Popper - a philosopher, right? The sheer aggressive intellectual ignorance of this post amazes me.