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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 4846047, member: 110504&quot;]Sulla80, your added context and nuance are very welcome counterweights to my nit-picking.&nbsp; ...I wonder whether we could make one last hard distinction between Science, including Mathematics, and Empirical Science in its modern, methodologically fully realized form (more from Bacon on)?&nbsp; Of course it&#039;s impossible to minimize the accomplishments of the Greek mathematicians (and proto-empirical-scientists), any more than of the Islamic proponents, especially from the Abbasid Caliphate onwards (who were that instrumental in reintroducing Europeans to Aristotle, round about the 13th c. ACE).</p><p>But in our present milieu, the need to insist on methodological norms for the physical sciences is pretty dire.&nbsp; It&#039;s not that people of your calibre can&#039;t appreciate the nuances, so much as that that many other people lack the same capacity and inclination.&nbsp; ...It&#039;s still early here, and this has gone on too long....[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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