There was an episode of the podcast ‘the infinite monkey cage’ which was more or less science versus philosophy. The guest scientists spoke at length and in detail what science had accomplished. The guest philosophers… sputtered for the whole show. But at the end the host said this...
In all of philosophy there is a small subset named logic. In all of logic there is a small subset named mathematics. In all of mathematics there is a small subset named statistics. If science would like to proceed without statistics, which is a shard of a shard of a shard of philosophy, then science is welcome to do so.
There was an episode of the podcast ‘the infinite monkey cage’ which was more or less science versus philosophy. The guest scientists spoke at length and in detail what science had accomplished. The guest philosophers… sputtered for the whole show. But at the end the host said this...
In all of philosophy there is a small subset named logic. In all of logic there is a small subset named mathematics. In all of mathematics there is a small subset named statistics. If science would like to proceed without statistics, which is a shard of a shard of a shard of philosophy, then science is welcome to do so.