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Re:What Is the Public Value of Philosophy? by illivah on Sunday April 19, 2015 @02:21PM (#9404155)
were statistics and controlled studies discovered in the domain of philosophy? Or were those discovered by mathemeticians, which simply replaced philosophy.
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Re:What Is the Public Value of Philosophy? by taylorscollon on Sunday April 19, 2015 @02:35PM (#9404213)
This is a false dichotomy. Frege was a mathematician and wrote philosophy attempting to explain what a number was. Questions about which domain this effort ought to be bucketed in don't have an answer.
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