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Avocados, Abstract Ideas, and Categories

 
 
coberst
 
Reply Sat 23 Feb, 2008 04:43 am
I started this search under the assumption that I could give good evidence to support a clear necessary and sufficient condition for any domain of knowledge to be judged a science. After searching Google and scratching my head I have decided that the question "What is science?" is, in fact, a value judgment.

Is value an abstract idea?

Is this question "what is science?" a matter of fact or a matter of value judgment?
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dadpad
 
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Reply Sat 23 Feb, 2008 06:48 am
Buy avocados a week before you need them.
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farmerman
 
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Reply Sat 23 Feb, 2008 07:31 am
do avocados really exist?
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dadpad
 
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Reply Sat 23 Feb, 2008 07:48 am
If no one hears an avocado ripen in the forest does it really ripen?
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Miklos7
 
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Reply Sat 23 Feb, 2008 09:29 am
One probably selects the avocado one wishes by phronesis [GK], which means "informed practical knowledge." It is a current thesis (Kathryn Montgomery and others) that physicians assist their patients by using phronesis, AFTER they have learned a lot of necessary hard science in school. The longer a physician practices, the more adept with phronesis he/she is.
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farmerman
 
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Reply Sat 23 Feb, 2008 06:13 pm
when is the proper time to dig up avocado tubers?
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Miklos7
 
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Reply Sat 23 Feb, 2008 08:31 pm
The full moon, and remember to bring your dowsing stick.
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dadpad
 
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Reply Sat 23 Feb, 2008 09:06 pm
I have a dog for avocado dowsing.
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Shapeless
 
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Reply Sun 24 Feb, 2008 12:43 pm
It's like the sound of one avocado ripening.
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