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by lolitan 2790 days ago
Wrong. Philosophy and Mathematics are the real pillars of knowledge. Everything else can be derived from this including physics.
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Philosophy doesn't really produce knowledge, it explores and frames questions. When we accept that the questions define a coherent domain of discourse, we create a field of study that does produce knowledge. This is how natural philosophy became science, and if ethics ever gets to this point, we'll get a moral science which will produce moral knowledge. Ethics doesn't currently produce moral knowledge.
would you care to elaborate?