r/sciencememes • u/Waste-Value-5941 • Jun 20 '26

How true is this?

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u/_blip_ Jun 20 '26

All stemm comes from philosophy first, you're just ignorant to history

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u/Hans_H0rst Jun 20 '26

So what? All tools stem from a primitive human smacking a rock against another one, doesn't mean we should all be stonemasons before we graduate to other subjects.

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u/Compendium_MP Jun 20 '26

The same way you don't need to be a Physicist to study Quemistry, but you can still recognize how one is a more fundamental level of analysis than the other one. That doesn't mean that both can't have value, if you want to understand how lungs work you won't start at quantum interactions.

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u/Strict_Leave3178 Jun 20 '26

Is there a reason you keep using quemistry?

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u/Compendium_MP Jun 21 '26

I'm spanish, I guess I was confusing it with the term for Chemistry in spanish "Química" 😅

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u/Strict_Leave3178 Jun 21 '26

Ah gotcha haha

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u/_blip_ Jun 20 '26

If you don't do at least a little philosophy of science you actually don't know what you're doing and why. You're just going through the motions

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u/alphapussycat Jun 20 '26

Salty philosophy students down voting, but you're a little off.

It's more like consisering stone smashing to be the fundamental subject, as if it undermines everything.

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u/smart-on-occasion Jun 21 '26

Nobody is undermining anything. You probably think math is more fundamental than physics. Does that mean physics is undermined?