<div dir="ltr">Philosopher is a beautiful word, but it lost its original meaning. Newton called himself a Natural Philosopher to distinguish himself from the Aristotelians of his time. <br>I think a scientist is kind of the opposite of a philosopher from a pragmatic perspective. <br><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, May 1, 2023 at 4:29 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg1123116012997003916"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_1123116012997003916WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div style="border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:none;border-top:1pt solid rgb(225,225,225);padding:3pt 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>…</b>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Gadersd via extropy-chat<br><br><u></u><u></u></p></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><p class="MsoNormal">>…I loathe philosophy and would be upset if anyone considered me a philosopher… <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Gadersd, the term philosopher has no clear opposite. What should it be called? A phobosopher?<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">spike<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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