/sci/ - Science & Math

Why do people still bother with philosophy when Rene "give her the D"escartes completely destroyed it 400 years ago?

The concept of the "evil demon" means we have literally no reliable information to base anything off of. Really the only meaningful contribution that anyone has made to philosophy since Rene has been people pointing out that "I think therefor I am" isn't actually even valid since it's possible to imagine situations where a thought could exist without an explicit thinker, among other problems.

Really, all you scientists should just give it up already. It's been logically proven that you can't know nothin, so why do you even bother?

>>7158327

Two guys are hunting and a statistician is their spotter. A duck takes off, he nudges them and they fire. One fires a foot to the left and misses while the other fires a foot to the right and also misses.

The statistician shouts out: "Yep! We got her!"

Statistics are fine, but profound insights into social and ideological structures as well as psychological conditions cannot boil down to statistics alone. That's why disciplines of so called "humanities" also require a knowledge and understanding of the universals in the human condition which can be observed through history culture, philosophy and art.

And the STEMfags who are denying this simple and rational truth because they've been indoctrinated by the anglophone analytic philosophies- which I find extremely ironic because, yeah, you've guessed it, it's also just the result of British empiricist philosophies by men like Hobbes or Locke (which, in turn, are also just utterances of social conditions and historical context: religious conflicts and political revolutions).

Not only that, but they're also rejecting the most contemporary and sound academic principle of the interdisciplinary approach in favor of some misguided elitism. Instead of approaching the matter academically and scientifically as in: "What can the other academic disciplines add to my findings about this topic?" they revert to a truly 4Chan like stance of: "Benis. I'm smart lel. Fag humanities a shit. Top kek."

For any 3D vectors a,b,c, prove that

(axb)xc lies in the plane of a and b