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[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months 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 5 months ago

I mean unless you somehow became omnipotent.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I know that I know nothing.

Is the motto since 2500 years, right? Right?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

I don't know!

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 months 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 5 months ago

2 sides, same coin.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 5 months 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 5 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 39 points 5 months ago (4 children)

https://xkcd.com/435/

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

lol no

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

I would put philosophy in leftmost

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months 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 5 months 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 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months 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 5 months ago (3 children)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

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

This guy.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago

Perfection.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

I like this one

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Science is just rebranded natural philosophy

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Cars are just rebranded horseless carriages.

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

Sofas are just rebranded comfy benches

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

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

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

I am a rebranded sloth.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

I am a meat popsicle.

[–] [email protected] 64 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Science is a liar... sometimes.

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

~~Galileo?~~ Bitch.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 5 months ago (1 children)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

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