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Philosophy . and . Psychology
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| Sub - headings |Philosophy can mean different things |
| |Sometimes philosophers deal with questions of truth and sometimes with questions of goodness ; |
| |sometimes they offer consolation for life’s sorrows and sometimes they are purely pragmatic. In the |
| |philosophy of science, a theory may be valued only for its predictive capability ; its truth or falsity|
| |may be immaterial. In ethics, philosophy may have a prescriptive function, offering a preferred set of |
| |values ; but where those values originate from is a debatable question. |
|Metaphysics and logic | |
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