needlesslydefiantwithtea:

notcompletelyuseless:

Then you used the wrong word in your last post. Monkeys are making tools to help them with everyday objects. We were making tools before we could communicate properly, we found fire, and the fact that water would quench the fire with…

Will you kids be quiet?

Social and natural sciences are not mutually exclusive, nor is one “better” than the other. The philosophy of science is vital to how it operates - the theory of epistemology, for example, covers knowledge. What is it to know and can we reach the stage where we know something for certain? Conversely, natural science is vital to philosophy - filling debates with new concepts and ideas such as quantum theory, which bring entirely new planes to philosophical debates.

The world without social or natural science would be a pretty hollow place either way. Subjects aren’t “tiered” in any way. It is what you find enjoyable, what you find worth learning, that defines the value of the degree you are studying. The whole purpose of University is to open your mind to new ideas and help you explore them in ways you did not think possible back in the narrow constraints of the schooling system.

I am disappoint - write out “I will be aware of my own socially constructed concepts of discipline worth in future” 1,000 times each.

EDIT: This can’t be a proper tumblr argument with one of these:

(via probablyhuman)