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Re:Has philosophy ever clarified mathematics? by jamesrcole on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @06:27PM (#13759297)
> Philosophy of language has /not/ become linguistics, philosophy of mind has /not/ become neuroscience, and only a subset of natural philosophy has become natural science.

They didn't say Philosophy of X has become Science of X, they said When a component of Philosophy of X becomes rigorous it becomes part of Science of X.

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Re:Has philosophy ever clarified mathematics? by twblalock on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @07:24PM (#13759734)
The parent comment included a verbatim quote from the page. It's what they said.
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Re:Has philosophy ever clarified mathematics? by jamesrcole on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @11:42PM (#13761187)
The quote fits what I said
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