Re:Software Needs Philosophers (2006)
by tremon on Monday December 14, 2020 @11:14AM
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What came first, empirical philosophers or the recognition that mundane experiential stuff is useful?
What came first, empirical physicists or the recognition that mundane events could be predicted and controlled in a useful way?
What came first, meteorologists or the recognition that paying heed to mundane weather patterns could be useful?
In essence, yes, you're arguing against a strawman. Every improvement is incremental. How come you're belittling Aristotle and Plato and discarding their contributions, but not similarly discarding Newton, Leibniz or Turing?
What came first, empirical physicists or the recognition that mundane events could be predicted and controlled in a useful way?
What came first, meteorologists or the recognition that paying heed to mundane weather patterns could be useful?
In essence, yes, you're arguing against a strawman. Every improvement is incremental. How come you're belittling Aristotle and Plato and discarding their contributions, but not similarly discarding Newton, Leibniz or Turing?