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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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