empiricism

with the advent of M-theory, string theories, and other cosmological things that can't be empirically proven, it seems like the trend is toward math and philosophy


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Relevant Pages

  • =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Re=3A_Meyer=27s_Argument_against_G=F6del=27s_Theorem?=
    ... I'm pleased that my novel about Gödel's ontological proof got ... Combining math & philosophy is dicey. ... consistent, well, that's a proof that it is indeed consistent. ...
    (sci.logic)
  • Re: The real paradoxes in SR.
    ... the math is correct in predicting what ... No philosophy that I know of would allow ... You are not attacking the data. ... data is only measurement data, ...
    (sci.physics.relativity)
  • Re: The Intellectual Origin of Positivism
    ... "philosophy" a term you throw about hoping to wrest meaning from it. ... You know little math. ... pythagoras avoided beans and meat, so did newton and einstein, having ...
    (sci.cognitive)
  • Re: Hitchens on religion
    ... What this has to do with religion is beyond me. ... the empirical universe. ... Math proofs, ... only philosophy class I took was "Philosophy of Science." ...
    (soc.culture.jewish.moderated)
  • Re: Epistemology 201: The Science of Science
    ... logic, but that doesn't mean logic is a product of philosophy, if onlyu ... Math is only partly about measurements. ... Most mathematicians have rather specialised gifts - it's for example ...
    (sci.math)