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Old 20th November 2012, 05:38 AM   #290
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Originally Posted by Garnabby View Post
Maybe, along the same reasoning, philosophy was "finding out too many things, or something".

Seriously, though, eg, even the plus, and minus, signs must come from somewhere and sometime. And each of math, and morality, make use of those, albeit in superficially-different own ways.
Then I'll ask the question I asked earlier in this thread.

'What has philosophy discovered?'

I can list the discoveries of science, it is a very long list, so what are the achievements of philosophy, and please, no stealing what scientists have discovered and claiming it for philosophers.
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