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I once read that philosophy and theology are similar to each other, in that “philosophy is seeking answers to questions that do not have answers; theology studi

I once read that philosophy and theology are similar to each other, in that “philosophy is seeking answers to questions that do not have answers; theology studies that which does not exist.” (Incidentally, “science of the unknowable” seems like an oxymoron, because “science” means “knowledge”…)

bmitc 5y ago
In my personal opinion, philosophy is about understanding what the questions even are and creating the tools needed for this understanding. So philosophy seeks to codify the questions and provide frameworks for answers to be framed in. All the sciences have questions that do not have answers. A good book that actually knows what it is talking about is The Logic of Information. https://www.amazon.com/Logic-Information-Theory-Philosophy-Conceptual-ebook/dp/B07N94QYBH/ https://www.amazon.com/Logic-Information-Theory-Philosophy-C...