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One important sociological constant for a couple centuries is if a hypothesis comes from a daydream, like the ring resonance structure of benzene, and its prove
by VLM 12y ago
One important sociological constant for a couple centuries is if a hypothesis comes from a daydream, like the ring resonance structure of benzene, and its proven right, it comes from science. If a hypothesis comes from a philosophical argument, like the atomic theory of matter, and its proven right, we very carefully forget about where it came from and don't discuss it, very "Fight Club" like.
So its not like nothing has ever come from philosophy as a hypothesis successfully validated as a useful predictive model, its that it happens all the time and we do NOT talk about it, just like Fight Club.
(edit to add another way to phrase it is if a hypothesis is dredged out of one individuals unconscious random internal noise source, we call its source Science. If it comes from a rational and reasoned conscious debate between thinkers, we don't talk about it at all, or at best we call it common knowledge. Perhaps its an attempt not to appear vain or conceited?)