/sci/ - Science & Math

>>7136058
>are you autistic, or possibly Hermione Granger?
Textbooks contain information everyone agrees upon. In philosophy there are no accepted theories, only opinions.

>Hahaha you actually think this is a bad thing?
I did not make any value judgements. I only proved that philosophy is of no intellectual merit.

>Interesting how people that feel critical thinking is useless are in need of it the most.
*tips dunce hat*
Philosophy does not teach critical thinking more than reading any arbitrary text does. You are a prime example of what >>7135618 describes. Critical thinking is a skill every normal person develops during their childhood. The fields which rely the most on critical thinking are the STEM fields.

>It's almost like you don't understand the point of using new words and ideas to describe things we couldn't describe before.
Science and math introduce new terminology all the time. If it turns out to be useful, it becomes accepted. Philosophy on the other hand arbitrarily redefines commonly used words for no purpose other than to satisfy the emotional opinions of the author.

Efficiency is an important factor in communication of scientific research in a globalized community. Nobody in academia is gonna award you additional points if your publication contains an appendix of unnecessary subjective philosophical musings, no matter how poetic they sound. You're just wasting your own and other people's time. And time is money. I don't care what you do in your bedroom whilst normal people would be having sex, but please keep your quixotic extraneous quisquilious horsefeathers out of science.

>>7013756
>Materialism states that a thing is a sum of its parts

>It also fails completely to take into account the observer

Nope. lrn2quantummechanics.

You don't know science. You don't know what we demonstrably know (and don't know) about reality. You aren't even capable of serious discussion about it, because you're so fucking unaware.

But you still come up here, with your garbage philosophy and pretend that your opinion is worth anything. You are the reason modern day philosophers are looked down upon.

>>6987887
The empiricism in science, i.e. the systematic use of observations, has nothing to do with the philospohical dogma of empiricism, i.e. the belief that observations are the only source of knowledge. Science also accepts truths derived by means of logic.

>>6987888
The only thing philosophy did to science was oppression. Thanks to philosophers and their ideology, scientists were prosecuted and executed, scientific thought was banned and scientific books were burned. For millennia philosophy held back science.

>>6946971
>>6946928

>symmetry is not a physical explanation