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Do you know what philosophy is? Do you know what science is?
by DanWaterworth 11y ago
Do you know what philosophy is? Do you know what science is?
- dang 11y agoThe GP was not a high-quality comment, but please don't make things personal.
- DanWaterworth 11y agoYou only think that I'm making things personal because you think those questions, "what is philosophy?", "what is science?" are basic questions that it would be an embarrassment not to know the answers to.
- dang 11y agoThat's sort of true, but misses my point. I'll try to be clearer. Such questions are commonly used as rhetorical weapons, so if you don't mean them that way, it's incumbent on you to make the distinction. In this case that might mean (a) providing enough information to explain why escalating the question is necessary to the discussion, as opposed to a closet insult, and (b) using impersonal language. For example, you already changed your wording from "do you know what science is" to "what is science". That's a big difference.
- DanWaterworth 11y agoOK, I appreciate your feedback.