(March 26, 2018 at 10:51 am)Khemikal Wrote: It gave you science (just as one example), and every implicational mechanic you use to generate conclusions from observational data. Continued work on material implication has...implications, for all implication.
Is it appropriate to say that philosophy gave us science? Or is it more apt to say that philosophy evolved into science? You could say that biology for example gave us immunology, true, but it's probably better to say that immunology is a specialisation of biology. How much biology can you still do without specialising?
After all, everything that philosophy can do, science can also do. But science is also equipped with so much more. Science is self-correcting, even down to reshaping its methodology. In fact, who would know better about the limitations of the current approach than the actual scientists seeing what it is capable of? So it's not like philosophy even has this role any more.
