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Post 20

Tuesday, December 9, 2003 - 1:39pm

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I think you're using an equivocation here. You have just written a long post to tell me that philosophy is a science because science is how you find truth. But that is an unuseful definition, not to mention counter to technical usage.

I might as well define the concept "fruit" as a sort of apple, and then define apple as anything edible. It's metaphorical, nothing more.

Post 21

Tuesday, December 9, 2003 - 3:13pm

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Equivocation happens when you confuse different senses of the same term--that is, you switch the meaning of a term in the middle of a discussion. I'm not doing that.

I'm pointing out that "science" has two senses. I have not confused them, but shown the relationship between the narrower and the wider sense, and between them and reason.

Rodney Rawlings

Post 22

Wednesday, December 10, 2003 - 7:07am

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I mean, you can say everything is a science and everything is an art. Those are general terms used to glorify something which is probably neither a science or an art, but a technical discipline (which, of course, does not mean it is "inferior"). Such use is not useful.

Objectivism unscientific?