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Author Topic:   Consilience - the Unity of Knowledge
slevesque
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Message 8 of 27 (517160)
07-30-2009 1:46 AM
Reply to: Message 1 by RAZD
07-28-2009 7:55 PM


This may seem like a classic answer, but I think that it answers quite well the question:
Sciene tells us what IS. Humanities tells us what OUGHT TO BE.
I think the first part is farely obvious. Science will tell us if I am alive or not. Humanities will tell us if I should be alive or not. (example: I just killed 20 people in a bus. Science won't be able to say if I should be executed or kept alive. Humanities will)
This aspect of science and humanities as been extensively looked into by every notable philosophers of science since Karl Popper.

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slevesque
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Message 14 of 27 (517306)
07-30-2009 11:52 PM
Reply to: Message 11 by Stile
07-30-2009 9:21 AM


Re: 'Will' or 'can'?
I agree with your 'add-on' to my little catch phrase

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