| twesterm said: A man drops a ball from the top of a building. The physicist asks how tall is the building so he can understand how long it will take to drop. The philospher asks why the man dropped the ball so he can understand what the man was thinking. |
No, the philosopher asks "If the ball is to reach the ground, it must travel half the distance, and then half the remainder, and then half the remainder, on and on forever. How does this reflect on the nature of how we perceive movement and time?"
@Kasz:
The empirical sciences have usurped philosophy as ways of studying the world, so it's mostly been relegated to meditations on morality and the nature of thought and the relationship between our perceptions and the reality around us (and whether there is one)
