Abstract:

The question whether philosophy is progressing or not is often addressed on the basis of a comparison between philosophy and science. So that it is clear that science is progressing, and if philosophy is progressing, it is believed that this is possible only through the similarity of science. Science is usually theoretical physics. In this article I have not discussed whether science is progressing. I have not questioned the necessity of the philosophy and science to be assessed according to the same standards. But I would like to point out that in this comparison a double standard is widely applied. The only way I try to show in the literature is to say that if the proposed standards are consistently applied to both fields, the only way to say that one does not progress is to say that the other does not progress. I suggest that this common double standard in the use of the measurement is basically derived from the structure of science and philosophy education.