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ChristianKl comments on Would you notice if science died? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Douglas_Knight 08 March 2016 07:19:24AM 2 points [-]

Do you have an example where it would make a difference?

Comment author: ChristianKl 08 March 2016 07:23:54AM 1 point [-]

Somewhere in his book Thomas Kuhn equates science as being a field that makes progress in understanding it's problem domain. If someone manages to learn knowledge to build better aqueducts than could be build in the past, he's therefore engaging in science.