[FOM] Falsify Platonism
Charles Silver
silver_1 at mindspring.com
Sun Apr 25 17:03:18 EDT 2010
john.n.nielsen at gmail.com
> It seems to me what is really at stake here is whether or not there is
> progress in philosophy (and whether that progress is comparable to
> scientific progress). I say that there is. Just the past hundred years
> of thought have furnished us with more refined conceptual tools that
> allow us to express ourselves with far greater precision, and avoiding
> more mistakes than was the case in the past.
Could you please furnish one or more examples of philosophical
progress in the past hundred years, such that the result of that
progress is not scientific, but still remains under the purview of
philosophy?
Thank you.
Charlie Silver
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