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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Remember, anything you "know" can be easily washed away with new information.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Funnily enough, the fact that anything you "know" can be easily washed away with new information is an exception.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I mean unless you somehow became omnipotent.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I know that I know nothing.

Is the motto since 2500 years, right? Right?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I don't know!

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As a philosophy grad, I appreciate this =) But philosophy gained a heap from Science too (probably more than v..v.) , so it's all good. It strikes me as natural that Science will time to time have to engage in Philosophy when it considers its assumptions.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

2 sides, same coin.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'm not really familiar with what you're referring to, but also, science is a philosophy. It's a method of finding truth.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I think it's likely a reference to this video.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago (4 children)

https://xkcd.com/435/

Like this, but just to the right of the mathematician is the philosopher.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I would put philosophy in leftmost

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I would loop it with math going to philosophy going to sociology (with a bunch of things in between).

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This was one of the (smaller) things that put me off the idea of getting my Masters in biology. It was a very real thing in the college of science at my university.

Though it was slightly different at the top for us. Mathematicians, astrophysicists, other theoretical physicists, and experimental physicists where all top of the college, but then they sub-layered themselves in that order. In the bio department Microbiologists were the top rank. But in our case it was because the Micro department held a couple patents that brought in big money.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Its all about money at the end of the day. For instance, the uni I attended is shutting down its entomology programme while continuing to pump large amounts of money into cell bio.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My university really liked to tout its Carnegie 1 classification to bring in donor money, then instead of using that money to fund the research needed to maintain it they'd use it to pay off debts for athletics.

[–] [email protected] 129 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

The nihilists should probably be represented by Black Hat...

This guy.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Perfection.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

I like this one

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Science is just rebranded natural philosophy

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Cars are just rebranded horseless carriages.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

the only horse thing in a car is it's horse-power

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Sofas are just rebranded comfy benches

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Really just likes of sand. Or possibly rocks or logs.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

I'd like to update it with:

I am a fancy meat Popsicle

[–] [email protected] 64 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Science is a liar... sometimes.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Stupid science bitches couldn't even make I more smarter.