If you do not explain what part of those ideas, specifically, to you, "should have been long ago abandoned", then you really are not saying much, if any thing at all, really.Sculptor wrote: ↑Thu May 20, 2021 12:47 pmAstrology, alchemy, the four humours, Phogistan theory, geocentric model of the unvierse, theory of the soul.Age wrote: ↑Thu May 20, 2021 11:37 amWill you provide example/s of any idea/s, which, to you, "should have been long ago abandoned"?Sculptor wrote: ↑Tue Apr 27, 2021 10:07 am So, the reason I mentioned those, and I could have mentioned many more discredited sciences, was to draw a distinction between the paradigms of philosophy and those of science. Old science does properly die and the paradigms are fully replaced, but not so with philosophy which still discusses ideas that ought to have been long ago abandoned yet are not.
Why do you think this things are still discussed if they, supposedly, "should have been long ago abandoned"?