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They said the same thing of physicist, biologists, geologists, chemists, etc. before, that is until they found themselves irrelevant. I suspect in time, it will
by redial 10y ago
They said the same thing of physicist, biologists, geologists, chemists, etc. before, that is until they found themselves irrelevant. I suspect in time, it will happen again.
- hprotagonist 10y agowhich they is this?
- throwanem 10y agoPhilosophers, I think. But the field as a whole seems to treat relevance as an afterthought.
- hprotagonist 10y agoin part this is because whenever something relevant comes up, it gets a name that is not philosophy. Also because we're still shaking off perception of philosophers as useless navel-gazing victorians; post WWI, the field has become substantially more akin to formal math and logic.