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Old 07-31-2005, 04:52 PM
JoshuaMayes JoshuaMayes is offline
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Default Re: I May Be a Philosophy Noob, But...

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Au contraire.

If science is to mean only the physical or experimental sciences than Ethics is not a science. But this is not the true definition of science. The philosophical definition of science is the certain knowledge of things in their causes, and Ethics completely fulfills this definition.

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According to Karl Popper, philosopher of science, a scientific theory is one that can be falsified by testing its predictions against our observations. According to dictionary.com, science is "The observation, identification, description, experimental investigation, and theoretical explanation of phenomena."

Both of these definitions of science agree with my use of the term and not yours. I guess one can always claim not to have made a mistake by redefining a word to mean something other than what a reasonable speaker of English would understand the word to mean.
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