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Philosopher’s Day!

By Liberate RVA Updates On Friday, August 10th, 2012 · Add Comment

Let’s plant the seeds of freedom in our community by celebrating Philosopher’s Day on the second Monday of October!

What is Philosophy?

“There are two major disciplines, which help us dispel the corrosive cobwebs of social fictions and reach through them to grasp reality. The first is theoretical; the second is practical. The first discipline is logic, which is the process of organizing our thoughts in a systematic and non-contradictory manner. The second is science, which is the testing of logical theories against empirical observations. The union of these two disciplines is philosophy, which is in its fundamentals the testing of theories of knowledge against both logic and empirical observation. Logic will tell you that two plus two equals four; science will verify that placing two rocks next to two other rocks will result in an aggregation of four rocks. But it is philosophy that tells us that logic plus empirical [...]

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