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Posted 09/18/07 - 02:03 PM: Subject: a sublayer?	#1
Is it good to make a subclassification of this layer about philosophy of science into small ones, like philosophy of biology, etc.? I don't know it myself, what do you think?

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Posted 09/18/07 - 07:16 PM:	#2
Sure, if there were a demand. The physicsforums has some subclassifications like that, but then, they have more scientists posting there. As it is, this science forum as often as not consists of pseudo science.

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Posted 09/25/07 - 12:10 PM:	#3
wuliheron wrote: Sure, if there were a demand. The physicsforums has some subclassifications like that, but then, they have more scientists posting there. As it is, this science forum as often as not consists of pseudo science. The demand, recalls me the emergence of more specific research fields in natural history, in life sciences. But then it seems definitely there will be some time point where it is hard to breakthrough the boundaries to reunite. Is it a good thing or bad thing? How to look at it?

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Posted 09/25/07 - 11:53 PM:	#4
Well, in the case of this forum we do have a separate social sciences forum. What can I say, variety is the spice of life while unity is the glue that holds everything together. There are both reductionist sciences and holistic sciences, and both are amazingly useful.

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