>>14076971this is literally all of the “hard” sciences and it’s obnoxious watching pop-sci headlines posted every month about
>science PROVES the existence of [insert philosophical concept postulated over 2000 years ago]I love to understand math and hard sciences because of the functional applications, but it’s frustrating when scientists with absolutely no philosophical background pretend like they’re doing something new when they’re just coloring in a picture drawn long ago. of course contemporary philosophy is mostly academic jaggoffery, but historical philosophy (both eastern and western) was an impressive interdisciplinary exploration of truth that has no equal in today’s world
