That’s a possible explanation, but I don’t think gels with history. The category distinction I referred to above came out of reformed theology before the Enligh

That’s a possible explanation, but I don’t think gels with history. The category distinction I referred to above came out of reformed theology before the Enlightenment and rise of modern science. Francis Bacon (credited with formalising the scientific method) himself described it in his essay Masculus Partus Temporum in 1603.