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Anonymous Fri Mar 5 05:14:08 2021 No.17701451 [Reply] [Original]

Why would one waste time on pre-modern philosophy of science texts?

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 5 05:17:37 2021 No.17701463 >>17701451 >waste time Wasting time would be reading anything else without having read the Ancients

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 5 05:19:02 2021 No.17701466 >>17701451 to LARP

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 5 05:41:12 2021 No.17701555 >>17701451 because the Physics has nothing to do with science. It's natural philosophy (on the nature of causality, change, time and space)

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 5 05:47:53 2021 No.17701590 >>17701451 Context

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 5 05:50:34 2021 No.17701606 >>17701555 >because the Physics has nothing to do with science Nonsense. If Aristotles' laws of motion weren't an attempt at science in the modern sense, you could say the same of Newton's.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 5 05:51:36 2021 No.17701613 >>17701451 It's funny and gives you a sense of history. Like reading about phlogiston and miasma.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 5 07:15:47 2021 No.17702034 File: 166 KB, 1748x2480, 71YMA2S9FeL (1).jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>17701451