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Science vs. philosophy

Science is a "way of knowing", Philosophy is "Loving" the way of knowing.

Science
definition
the intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behaviour of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment.

Science
Etymology
mid-14c., "what is known, knowledge (of something) acquired by study; information;" also "assurance of knowledge, certitude, certainty," from Old French science "knowledge, learning, application; corpus of human knowledge" (12c.), from Latin scientia "knowledge, a knowing; expertness," from sciens (genitive scientis) "intelligent, skilled," present participle of scire "to know," probably originally "to separate one thing from another, to distinguish," related to scindere "to cut, divide," from PIE root *skei- "to cut, split" (source also of Greek skhizein "to split, rend, cleave," Gothic skaidan, Old English sceadan "to divide, separate" ).

From late 14c. in English as "book-learning," also "a particular branch of knowledge or of learning;" also "skillfulness, cleverness; craftiness." From c. 1400 as "experiential knowledge;" also "a skill, handicraft; a trade." From late 14c. as "collective human knowledge" (especially that gained by systematic observation, experiment, and reasoning). Modern (restricted) sense of "body of regular or methodical observations or propositions concerning a particular subject or speculation" is attested from 1725; in 17c.-18c. this concept commonly was called philosophy. Sense of "non-arts studies" is attested from 1670s. [etymonline.com]

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Philosophy
Definition
the study of the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, and existence, especially when considered as an academic discipline.

Philosophy
Etymology
c. 1300, "knowledge, body of knowledge," from Old French filosofie "philosophy, knowledge" (12c., Modern French philosophie) and directly from Latin philosophia and from Greek philosophia "love of knowledge, pursuit of wisdom; systematic investigation," from philo- "loving" (see philo-) + sophia "knowledge, wisdom," from sophis "wise, learned;" of unknown origin.Meaning "system a person forms for conduct of life" is attested from 1771. [etymonline.com]

For the love of wisdom, wisdom is:
Wisdom, sapience, or sagacity is the ability to think and act using knowledge, experience, understanding, common sense and insight.[1] Wisdom is associated with attributes such as unbiased judgment, compassion, experiential self-knowledge, self-transcendence and non-attachment,[2] and virtues such as ethics and benevolence.[3][4] wikipedia.

Wisdom has been defined in many different ways,[2][5][3] including several distinct approaches to assess the characteristics attributed to wisdom.[6][7] wikipedia

Word 8 Mar 24
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All I know is that while I love knowledge, the world needs plumbers as well as philosophers, and plumbing is a body of knowledge anyway.

brentan Level 8 Mar 24, 2020

Plumbing requires knowledge of flow of the things plumbed along with other engineering and design knowledge.

Plumbing is a body of knowledge for its specific purpose that is a "way of knowing " or a science.

Could we then philosophize on how something should be plumbed or designed?

@Word I think kt's already done in the trade manuals, unless you mean how plumbing affects society in terms of understanding itself.

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Science DOES allow you to make your own version and then pit it against everyone in the world and see what happens. The writers of the above only wanted to sell books. Why should there be more than one Websters?

See my loose definition of science as a collection in the Science teachers Group on this site. Not everyone in the world has seen it yet OR yet try to make up their own.

Your's above does sound good tho'

Mcflewster Level 8 Mar 24, 2020