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Mathematics & philosophy aren’t sciences because there are no hypotheses, experiments, and results; it’s just thinking and logic. It’s still incredibly valuabl
by FredPret 5y ago
Mathematics & philosophy aren’t sciences because there are no hypotheses, experiments, and results; it’s just thinking and logic.
It’s still incredibly valuable and the basis of many good things.
I would also add that engineering isn’t only working with existing scientific knowledge; we were building steam trains and optimizing them long before we started doing scientific thermodynamics.
- fwip 5y agoGenerally in math, they call hypotheses "conjectures," and proofs are similar to results.
- bee_rider 5y agoScience and math are definitely good friends and so I'm sure lots of analogies between the two could be made, but I believe the comment was getting at the epistemological difference between 'proven' (the happy state in mathematics) and 'not contradicted by experimental evidence' (the happy state in science).