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[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 30 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'm not really familiar with what you're referring to, but also, science is a philosophy. It's a method of finding truth.

[–] mipadaitu@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago (4 children)

https://xkcd.com/435/

Like this, but just to the right of the mathematician is the philosopher.

[–] alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 129 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] model_tar_gz@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago
[–] bane_killgrind@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago

I like this one

[–] leftzero@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 1 year ago

The nihilists should probably be represented by Black Hat...

This guy.

[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This was one of the (smaller) things that put me off the idea of getting my Masters in biology. It was a very real thing in the college of science at my university.

Though it was slightly different at the top for us. Mathematicians, astrophysicists, other theoretical physicists, and experimental physicists where all top of the college, but then they sub-layered themselves in that order. In the bio department Microbiologists were the top rank. But in our case it was because the Micro department held a couple patents that brought in big money.

[–] nikita@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Its all about money at the end of the day. For instance, the uni I attended is shutting down its entomology programme while continuing to pump large amounts of money into cell bio.

[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My university really liked to tout its Carnegie 1 classification to bring in donor money, then instead of using that money to fund the research needed to maintain it they'd use it to pay off debts for athletics.

[–] anarchist@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I would put philosophy in leftmost

[–] nikita@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I would loop it with math going to philosophy going to sociology (with a bunch of things in between).

[–] Zehzin@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Science is just rebranded natural philosophy

[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Cars are just rebranded horseless carriages.

[–] Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Sofas are just rebranded comfy benches

[–] Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Alistaire@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago

I'd like to update it with:

I am a fancy meat Popsicle

[–] Socsa@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Really just likes of sand. Or possibly rocks or logs.

[–] Alistaire@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago

the only horse thing in a car is it's horse-power

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 5 points 1 year ago

I think it's likely a reference to this video.