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The Philosophy of Chemistry - Paul Ferguson - 10-10-2025
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"Imagine a chemist and a philosopher going on a long walk. Do you think they could discover common ground while looking at nature together? On the one hand, we have a scientist, who believes in the infallibility of formulas, who accepts that numbers cannot lie, who measures and analyzes, who seeks the answer in the world he sees through the lens of a microscope; on the other hand, a philosopher, whose only tool is reason, and who questions everything to the finest detail, and yet is never fully convince..."
https://philosophynow.org/issues/170/Alchemy_Mining_Speculation_and_Experimentation