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Old 05-09-2008, 07:17 AM   #50 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by helpmestartauniversity View Post
Philosophy directly gave rise to science, psychology, sociology, and most other fields in a typical College of Arts and Sciences. Besides that major stuff, here's a smaller specific example: modern computers would not be possible without fairly recent advances in Logic (a sub-field of Philosophy).

I think most of this confusion is a result of people having ill-formed and wickedly narrow partial conceptions of what philosophy is.
Who said arguing can't accomplish great things?
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