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minus-squareALoafOfBreadlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·edit-24 months agoPhilosophy is often more like looking for things that can’t be seen with a flashlight but hypothesizing that they must exist and proving it logically.
minus-squareDonkter@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·4 months agoPhilosophy is determining that there is, probably, a cat in the room. And science is using a flashlight to find it.
minus-squareALoafOfBreadlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months agoBut sometimes philosophy is also like not knowing that flashlights exist and looking for a cat in the dark, sadly.
Philosophy is often more like looking for things that can’t be seen with a flashlight but hypothesizing that they must exist and proving it logically.
Philosophy is determining that there is, probably, a cat in the room. And science is using a flashlight to find it.
But sometimes philosophy is also like not knowing that flashlights exist and looking for a cat in the dark, sadly.