Philosophy of Science

[Singu]

WHY IS SCIENCE ABOUT EXPLANATIONS?

It's uncontroversial now to say that science is about explanations. So why is that?

The best way to explain it (heh) would be that you can't figure out how the iPhone works, by just observing it. Sure you may be able to observe and categorize millions of similar and related apps... but that tells us absolutely nothing about how the OS works, or how the phone works. It just tells us how to categorize things.

In order to understand how the iPhone actually works, then you're going to need explanations for virtually anything (in the form of explanatory theories). It's going to need theories of physics, theories of computer science, theories of programming... in order to understand exactly how the iPhone works. And it's this understanding that will create new theories and hence new knowledge.

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I mean, allelujah

[hatchback176]

WHY IS SCIENCE ABOUT EXPLANATIONS?

It's uncontroversial now to say that science is about explanations. So why is that?

The best way to explain it (heh) would be that you can't figure out how the iPhone works, by just observing it. Sure you may be able to observe and categorize millions of similar and related apps... but that tells us absolutely nothing about how the OS works, or how the phone works. It just tells us how to categorize things.

In order to understand how the iPhone actually works, then you're going to need explanations for virtually anything (in the form of explanatory theories). It's going to need theories of physics, theories of computer science, theories of programming... in order to understand exactly how the iPhone works. And it's this understanding that will create new theories and hence new knowledge.

Except you stupidly think categorizing doesn't include Causality and Functions when this is obvious to thinkers who are the ones that categorize in the 1st place.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catego..._of_categories (Causality)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category_theory (Functions)

[Singu]

Except you stupidly think categorizing doesn't include Causality and Functions when this is obvious to thinkers who are the ones that categorize in the 1st place.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catego..._of_categories (Causality)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category_theory (Functions)

...What? You obviously don't come up with any causality by just categorizing things. At best, you can have correlations.

Ti, Te, Fi, Fe, etc., are just categorizations that don't really mean anything (i.e. not explanations). Get over it.

Anyway, you're just regurgitating a bunch of "facts" without ever understanding what any of them actually mean.