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Re:What, exactly, do philosophers do? by sametmax on Monday September 18, 2017 @03:40PM (#15278855)
If you read universally accepted classical philosophers most of their work are not precise at all, yet they are widely recognized.

Actually, a lot of philosophy is "arguable". I don't think you can argue a lot with a mathematical proof.

And I'm sorry, but when Lacan compare the penis to square root of -1, it's hard to come back to scientists and sell the rigor of philosophy. Same when philosophers use and abuse Gödel's incompleteness theorems or the quantum observer effect to justify ludicrous claims.

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Re:What, exactly, do philosophers do? by throwawayknecht on Monday September 18, 2017 @03:55PM (#15278945)
> Same when philosophers use and abuse Gödel's incompleteness theorems...

Except the most popular abuser of Gödel's conclusions by far is a physicist and mathematician.

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Re:What, exactly, do philosophers do? by sametmax on Monday September 18, 2017 @04:55PM (#15279485)
Nobody said scientists couldn't be wrong. I'm just against the idea that philosophy is as rigorous as maths in most of the forms it has taken until today.
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