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Autism Is Not a Single Condition and Has No Single Cause, Scientists Conclude (www.wired.com)

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[–] janNatan@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 days ago

I was speaking of philosophy not as it is today, but as it was - a precursor to "science" before the word even existed.

Armchair philosophers are a historical creature - they sat in their armchairs and deduced how the world works without getting up from their chairs to test any of their assumptions.

The armchair philosophers I am talking about have little to nothing in common with modern philosophers.