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I may agree with you that it is not science. However I disagree with the reasons you use to back this up. They did have a theory for how one obtains experienc
by vokep 9y ago
I may agree with you that it is not science. However I disagree with the reasons you use to back this up.
They did have a theory for how one obtains experience, a basic one (the senses collect info about the outside world and...thats it, experience gained!)
It really sounds like you're claiming philosophy is not a science, which doesn't really make sense. Philosophy is certainly a unique kind of science, one where hypotheses must be made on nebulous difficult to define concepts, and lots of things are difficult or impossible to test. However that doesn't automatically make it not scientific. Just because theories are untestable doesn't mean science cannot be done with them. Because they aren't truly untestable, they just aren't entirely testable. You may not be able to prove/disprove a given theory, but you can test a group of theories, limit it to "okay, we can't tell which theory is true, but it absolutely IS one of these theories, not any others" And quite possibly as other science advances, previously untestable aspects may become testable and the list can be shortened.
To claim that philosophy isn't science is to claim it cannot make any objective progress, which is something I definitely disagree with.