(January 9, 2016 at 6:21 am)Quantum Wrote: It's not a decision between philosophy or science. I dare you to make an interesting scientific statement without making philosophical assumptions at the same time.
(Piggybacking on your post)
I'll go further, I double dog dare him.
Philosophy is the bedrock upon which science is built.
That's not to say that there isn't shit philosophy and shit philosophers. There are. But I guarangoddamntee you that if you discard all of philosophy, then there is no basis by which to draw interesting scientific conclusions.
Put slightly more vulgarly, anyone that claims that there aren't unprovable, unfalisfiable axioms in science is full of shit. Hmm, I wonder where those axioms come from? Those assumptions are used not because they are necessarily true, but because they are tremendously *useful* and denying them is to embrace epistemological nihilism. See how well that works out for you.
