You're listening to the partially examined life, a podcast by some guys where at one point

set on doing philosophy for living, but then thought better of it.

Our question for episode 226 is something like, how should we investigate nature and

be read Sir Francis Bacon's new organon from 1620?

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This is Mark Linson-Mire discovering my middle axioms in middle age in Madison, Wisconsin.

This is Wes Allen trying to melt butter with wine and Cambridge Massachusetts.

This is Dylan Casey affecting a complete solution and separation of nature by the divine

fire of my mind in Madison, Wisconsin.

So hey, the birth of the scientific method.

If we actually want to address the divergences between philosophy and science and the potential

hostility that they have even in the modern age with some scientists saying, uh, philosophy

is all obsolete.

It's useless.

It's not practical.

And really, we should use a scientific method to examine everything versus the philosopher

saying, no, no, that's a scientist.

We need to be careful.

We need to set limits to science.

Well, we got sort of the birth of some of those conflicts right here in Bacon's outlining

something that looks a little like the scientific method.

Yep.

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