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I don't mean to flame, but in the light and sense of that quotation, weren't controls invented by scientists and refined by statisticians both concerned with ef
by tel 15y ago
I don't mean to flame, but in the light and sense of that quotation, weren't controls invented by scientists and refined by statisticians both concerned with effective experimental design? There weren't philosophers involved until way later.
I find there's some important common ground between science and epistemology that can be talked about, though practicing scientists, in practice, never need to tread there.
- jackfoxy 15y agoOne can argue philosophers, or a philosopher, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Bacon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Bacon, developed the scientific method. Bacon and Galileo were contemporaries. I don’t know if either influenced the other at all. Maybe they each independently discovered modern science.
- davesims 15y agoGalileo was a first-rate philosopher of science as well as a scientist. He was a contemporary and co-belligerent with Bacon in laying the foundation of modern science. His role as a serious philosopher is often overlooked.
- JonnieCache 15y agoScience evolved directly out of philosophy. Before science was called science, it was referred to as "natural philosophy." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_philosophy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_philosophy Principia Mathematica's full title is Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica