Timeline for Why doesn't philosophy have higher standards for its arguments?
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| Jul 17, 2019 at 7:06 | comment | added | Michael Kay | Yes, but there are whole areas of mathematics (consider probability theory, calculus, even Euclidean geometry) that developed empirically to solve real world problems, and only later became formal enough to regard as pure mathematics. | |
| Jul 17, 2019 at 3:14 | comment | added | forest | Physics never gets reclassified as mathematics. Math is a technique that is widely used in physics, and completely indisputable subsets of physics are often very heavy in math, but alone, math is totally abstract and says nothing about the world. | |
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| Jul 16, 2019 at 8:07 | history | answered | Michael Kay | CC BY-SA 4.0 |