Checks - [OT]?
Yep!
Good ...

> You are right, I just assumed (I don't know why) that the average mind ca=
n
> find out answers of "When", "Where" and "What" from answers of "How" and
> "Why".

FWIW I wot that the average mind does "what" very poorly at all and
the highly capable mind does it with great complexity - but decreasing
certainty of result.

"The philosophy of Science" is a discipline that most have not heard
of, and which sounds like a joke to many.
TPoS takes even the apparently simplest of  questions,
descriptions,observations and statements and seeks to understand what
is really meant, while weaving increasingly complex webs of
uncertainty as they progress. That may sound like a dismissive
rejection of the validity of the discipline, but in fact both probably
is a reasonable obligation and is more a wrty shaking of the head over
the Pandora's box that reality turns out to be.

Why are some roses red?
What is the speed of light (good luck with that one)
If a tree falls in a forest ...

Some very great minds indeed have set out along the 'simple' path of
Science, discovered the PoS branching and been lost in a lifetime's
joyful meanderings, such that we all have a much better understanding
of their chosen subject, but no increasingly less.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_science

The philosophy of science is concerned with all the assumptions,
foundations,methods, implications of science, and with the use and
merit of science. This discipline sometimes overlaps metaphysics,
ontology and epistemology, viz., when it explores whether scientific
results comprise a study of truth. In addition to these central
problems of science as a whole, many philosophers of science consider
problems that apply to particular sciences (e.g. philosophy of biology
or philosophy of physics). Some philosophers of science also use
contemporary results in science to reach conclusions about philosophy.

Philosophy of science has historically been met with mixed response
from the scientific community. Though scientists often contribute to
the field, many prominent scientists have felt that the practical
effect on their work is limited.

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PhilSci:

http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/journals/journal/phos.html
PoS Journal. Since 1934.
http://journal.philsci.org/

http://www.philsci.org/
PoS association

http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/
Archive

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http://undsci.berkeley.edu/article/philosophy
Berkley.
How Science really works.
Right.

http://www.thebsps.org/
British Society for the PoS

http://www.pitt.edu/~pittcntr/
Pitt

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_science

https://www.google.co.nz/search?biw=3D2560&bih=3D1441&q=3Dphilosophy+of+sci=
ence+stanford&revid=3D1311015707&sa=3DX&psj=3D1&ei=3Dbt42UrncL4qFiAfHm4CwBg=
&ved=3D0CIoBENUCKAA#psj=3D1&q=3D%22philosophy+of+science%22
Google.

http://philosophy.wisc.edu/forster/520/Chapter%201.pdf
Claims to be an intro.
May be special pleading in drag.
(Only a vv fast skim)

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Tree in Quad:

There once was a man who said: "God
Must think it exceedingly odd
If he finds that this tree
Continues to be
When there's no one about in the Quad."

Langford Reed, The Complete Limerick Book (1924)
The topic of this limerick and the following one is George Berkeley's
philosophical principle, "To be is to be perceived".

Dear Sir,
Your astonishment's odd;
I am always about in the Quad;
And that's why the tree
Will continue to be,
Since observed by
Yours faithfully,
God.

Langford Reed, The Complete Limerick Book (1924)
Although this reply is anonymous, it is usually also attributed to
Knox. (See, for example, a Guardian editorial for 3 September 2010.)
Given the supposedly divine provenance of the limerick, the lack of a
human author would appear to be part of the joke.

_________________

No, Agh!.
Agh No!
No no Agh.

     http://www.philosophyideas.com/files/other/Philosophical%20Limericks.p=
df

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Agh,

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