I really can't put my position across any more clearly than I have. You can either address it clearly as it is or not. You have chosen not and I have things to do.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
It's true that science is based on evidence. But there are other kinds of evidence than just scientific. Philosophical argument, for example, is based on other kinds of evidence. Philosophical arguments still concern questions of truth and evidence, but in fields outside science.
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Replying to @ComplaintStick @HPluckrose
If one says that scientific evidence is the only kind of evidence, then philosophy is just a part of science. But if we say that philosophy works with forms of evidence not limited to scientific evidence, then the use of evidence is not itself sufficient to distinguish science.
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Replying to @ComplaintStick
Give me an example of a form of evidence not limited to scientific evidence? Are we talking about evidence of things not generally studied by the natural sciences - eg medieval manuscripts being evidence of beliefs held in that period?
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Do you think philosophy just argues about scientific evidence?
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Replying to @ComplaintStick
Give me an example of a form of evidence not limited to scientific evidence? Are we talking about evidence of things not generally studied by the natural sciences - eg medieval manuscripts being evidence of beliefs held in that period?
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Replying to @HPluckrose @ComplaintStick
I cannot know what you are saying unless you define 'Evidence which is not scientific.' If there is some point you want to make, please make it. I don't want to waste any more time trying to get you to actually say something.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
By all means, don't waste your time. But I can't help noticing that you didn't answer my question, which was neither vague nor abstract.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Do you think that philosophy just argues about scientific evidence?
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No, of course not. Who does think this and why? Many of them go on about metaphysics and other woo. I want to know if *yours* does. But actually, I don't any more. I think it is clear that you are not actually going to say anything and this is often the problem with philosophy.
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