The sciences are concerned with “what,” whereas the humanities are concerned with “how.”
Write an elaboration of what you think this means. — ucarr
The sciences ask how questions all the time: how does relativity connect with quantum mechanics; how do neurons connect in such a way that experience arises? — Manuel
Likewise, the humanities ask "what questions" frequently. What do human beings do when they are left in isolation, what do people think about X and Y, and so on. — Manuel
The sciences are concerned with how. How does light propagate, how are chemical bonds formed, how do worms reproduce. — Lionino
Sciences and humanities are not mutually exclusive, and both are concerned with "what" and "how" in their respective areas of interest. — jkop
What = existence; How = journey — ucarr
The sciences are all about measurement. Through the lens of the sciences, to measure a thing is to contain it and thereby to know it. — ucarr
The humanities are rooted in communication of voices arising from The Hard Problem — ucarr
The sciences are concerned with “what,” whereas the humanities are concerned with “how.” — ucarr
The sciences are rooted in communication of existence in terms of what things are, how they’re interrelated, what they do and what functions, if any, they have. — ucarr
The sciences are all about measurement. Through the lens of the sciences, to measure a thing is to contain it and thereby to know it. — ucarr
The humanities are rooted in communication of voices arising from The Hard Problem: What it’s like to navigate and experience the material creation as a sentient being with an enduring individual point of view with personal history attached. — ucarr
Through the lens of the humanities, to journey from cradle to grave is to string together a personal narrative (continuity) of emblematic, pivotal, transformative and self-defining moments. — ucarr
Science, as a method, is not culture bound (in the general sense). It's motivation is simplicity of theory, not outcomes. — AmadeusD
Well, true that measurement is central to science, but so too is theory - the framework within which measurements are interpreted. — Wayfarer
Measurement was key aspect, but so too was a radically different vision of nature. — Wayfarer
Well, I'm sure David Chalmers would be flattered to be counted as the Founder of the Humanities, but I'm not sure it is warranted. — Wayfarer
I know one of the best ways for testing a theory is seeing if it can make correct predictions, so I don't agree that science isn't seriously concerned with outcomes. — ucarr
The sciences are concerned with “what...” — ucarr
No. Science is concerned with science. The humanities are concerned with humans. — I like sushi
The give away is in the names? — I like sushi
The sciences are rooted in communication of existence in terms of what things are, how they’re interrelated, what they do and what functions, if any, they have. — ucarr
Science makes no assumptions. — I like sushi
If measurements cannot be made science does not just leave it alone. We can observe changes and then speculate as to why such changes are happening. — I like sushi
The Hard Problem is a scientific problem. — I like sushi
The Humanities are about the expression and understanding of the human condition in lived terms most often through a narrative function — I like sushi
Where we are blind the Humanities dresses us in comfort. Is there truth hidden within this comfort? I believe so. — I like sushi
...the sciences are a subset of the humanities — 180 Proof
...interpretative-representational discourses explicating aspects of the human condition – which seek, via defeasible reasoning, testable answers to empirical questions. — 180 Proof
I don't mean to go that far in ascribing credit to Chalmers. I'm merely using his title to describe the still privileged human condition vis-á-vis the natural world. — ucarr
I think all I meant there was that the outcomes aren't hte science — AmadeusD
It's not motivated by the outcome, per se, but by the outcome's accuracy. — AmadeusD
The sciences are concerned with “what,” whereas the humanities are concerned with “how.” — ucarr
Do existence and journey represent two different modal methods of discovery?
Does science culminate in the presence of a thing understood?
Does art culminate in the experience of an enduring point of view? — ucarr
that's an outcome predicted by Relativity. — ucarr
Asking the right questions about the world we see around — ucarr
In my opinion, the key distinction is testability. — Tarskian
Regarding my thesis, going forward from what you wrote above entails assessing whether experimentation is modally existential, with the hows and whys of the details of an pattern involving existing things being ancillary to the modally existential process of experimentation. — ucarr
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formalism_(philosophy_of_mathematics)
In the philosophy of mathematics, formalism is the view that holds that statements of mathematics and logic can be considered to be statements about the consequences of the manipulation of strings (alphanumeric sequences of symbols, usually as equations) using established manipulation rules. A central idea of formalism "is that mathematics is not a body of propositions representing an abstract sector of reality.
According to formalism, the truths expressed in logic and mathematics are not about numbers, sets, or triangles or any other coextensive subject matter — in fact, they aren't "about" anything at all.
I have no idea what point you are trying to make here. — I like sushi
I posted because your general conception of what science is seemed misguided/inaccurate. — I like sushi
The means of accurate measuring of items like 'good' and 'bad' is obscure (and possibly a delusion?). — I like sushi
By this I simply mean that we do not possess the scope in spacial or temporal terms to pass any reasonably accurate declaration for a hard and fast 'rule' of human nature. — I like sushi
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