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Wasn't it the other way around? Nature philosophy tried to find out how the world works by theorizing in their armchairs and then science came along, did real

• ineedasername 5y ago
  There was a huge overlap with natural philosophers that were also doing "regular" philosophy. It shares the same mentality of approaching questions, it's just that natural philosophy had a much better method of verifying its output.
• JohnHaugeland 5y ago
  Uh, no. Science was invented by nature philosophers to defeat the ridiculous false sciences of the day like alchemy and so forth. Go look up who invented science. You'll see three argued names. All three are philosophers. Science is a tool of philosophy for discarding frauds.