我天生是一個 philosopher

念了這個明白自己為啥是個文科生！

While such general categories are usually identified by philosophers according to quite abstract bases, scientists often work with more specific concepts and try to organize them from the bottom up into increasingly general classes. Taxonomists of plants, animals and minerals start with concepts like ‘lion’ or ‘silver’ and group them into such general classes as ‘carnivores’ or ‘metals’, then group these into more general ones like ‘mammals’, ‘chemical elements’, etc. Hopefully, philosophers starting from the top downwards and scientists starting from the bottom upwards should meet somewhere in the middle and collaborate to build a consistent scheme encompassing all concepts. In practice, however, their projects often pursue different aims, so that philosophers are interested in only the top categories and disregard the trivial details of everyday entities, while scientists prefer to stay ‘scientific’, without speculating too much about general categories. 

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• 歡迎來書壇！ -lovecat08- ♀ (0 bytes) () 05/17/2023 postreply 11:40:39

• 哈哈！我們要跟《美語世界》打擂台啦 -花似鹿蔥- ♀ (0 bytes) () 05/17/2023 postreply 13:29:57

• Will Durant: Every science begins as philosophy and ends... -renqiulan- ♂ (183 bytes) () 05/17/2023 postreply 13:41:27

• Is art starting from an emotional impulse and merging into -紫若藍- ♀ (46 bytes) () 05/17/2023 postreply 16:27:12

• Come again with thought-provoking posts. -renqiulan- ♂ (0 bytes) () 05/17/2023 postreply 13:44:00

• 我對這段話持保留意見。它似乎認為哲學家是“文科生”，是non-scientific的，科學與哲學是分離的。其實， -唐宋韻- ♂ (531 bytes) () 05/17/2023 postreply 18:27:01

• 別那麽認真，不過是讀來消遣。作者也不是什麽特別有名特別有成就的人。 -攀登2022- ♀ (0 bytes) () 05/17/2023 postreply 18:28:33

• 不是較死理，隻是交流一下。 -唐宋韻- ♂ (0 bytes) () 05/17/2023 postreply 18:31:39