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Originally Posted by willravel
You're confusing problem solving and innovation with philosophy. Philosophy has nothing to do with the invention of the wheel.
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I should clarify. I don't mean to say that philosophy was employed in inventing the wheel. I meant to say that a mind with the capacity for philosophy was able to do so. Philosophy is a broad term. In this respect, I mean to say that the human mind is capable of logic, reasoning, and understanding cause and effect in the universe as it sees it. It is this power of mind that allows humans to do such things as invent wheels. The closest we can get to a direct relation here is by calling philosophy the pursuit of knowledge. Without such a pursuit, would the wheel have ever come about?
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