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Plato and the Poets: WWE Smackdown

academia, open problems —

8 Jan 2010

Revisited the argument of Plato and the poets yet again today. Will this conversation really not die even after 3000 years of us having it? I'm tired of it after only 3 months. My own take, which I'm sure will convince absolutely no one since everyone falls firmly on the side they are to be on, never to leave it again:

Literature and non-empirical pursuits are not unscientific any more than any other sort of observation is. Scientific method, folks. Hypothesize, observe, record, adjust hypothesis. Literature as observation. Don't knock it. It gave us gravity.

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