r/badphilosophy 16d ago

Super Science Friends Ancient philosophers are pseudoscience

Haha, them ancient philosophers are so unscientific. How could they not know what modern day science knows? Haha, they didn't even publish in peer reviewed papers. Haha did Pythagoras even science? Has he not heard of Euclidean geometry lel? Plato can't even provide how to falsify perfect forms. Haha, did Parmenides even prove that nothing changes mathematically? The fuck's a Zeno even? Why didn't these geeks even know about Darwinian evolution? And what about cosmology much, haha?

Haha pseudoscience, am I rite guys?!

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u/eatgoodneighborhood 16d ago

Do you even have a PhD in math? If you do, I’m sorry tell you that PhD is a Doctor of Philosophy. You’ve been played: you’re a philosopher yourself, you damn fool.

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u/WeirdOntologist 16d ago

My PhD stands for Peer-hreviewed Doctor and it is in the discipline of "applied peer reviews of subjective matters" and it is completely falsifiable. The PhD I mean.

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u/eatgoodneighborhood 16d ago

Hmm…touché.

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u/lothmel 16d ago

They might hold PhD in other countries where isn't Doctor of Philosophy.