>So in a sense if you want to find out the reason for existence, you likely need to get more fundamental than science and logic and because philosophy involves

>So in a sense if you want to find out the reason for existence, you likely need to get more fundamental than science and logic and because philosophy involves things like ethics or religion it is, imo, not the true path to answering these fundamental questions. Some philosophies and branches of philosophy involve ethics or religion. Some don't really touch on them at all. The scientific method could be described as a philosophy about the best way to approach the accrual of knowledge, armed only with the assumption that reality outside one's mind is real and that we can observe it in a reproducible way. Likewise, you could describe mathematics as another branch of philosophy, since it is literally logic represented in a more abstract form. Just as an aside, it's pretty ironic for you to say, "don't use the prescriptive branches of philosophy, just the descriptive ones like logic and the scientific method" because that is itself an example of prescriptive philosophy, borne of the logical conclusions of a subjective opinion rather than objective fact