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Anyway, move your date to about 500 years ago DRab, when science developed the scientific method and was hence forever separated from philosophy.
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<p>Amazing, science developed itself without even existing first? Or did it exist first? Then it wasn't really developed, at least not 500 years ago. I'm confused, what are you saying? :rolleyes:</p>
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From classical times until the advent of the modern era, philosophy was divided into natural philosophy and moral philosophy. In the 1800's the term natural philosophy gradually gave way to the term natural science. Natural science was gradually specialized to its current domain, which typically includes the physical sciences and the biological sciences. The social sciences, inheriting portions of the realm of moral philosophy, are currently included under the auspices of science as well, to the extent that these disciplines also use empirical methods. As currently understood, moral philosophy still retains the study of ethics, regarded as a branch of philosophy and one of the three classical normative sciences.
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<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science%5B/url%5D">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science</a></p>
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Forms of science historically developed out of philosophy or more specifically natural philosophy. At older universities, long-established Chairs of Natural Philosophy are nowadays occupied mainly by professors of physics. Our notions of science and scientists date only to the 19th century. Before then, the word "science" simply meant knowledge and the label of scientist did not exist. Isaac Newton's 1687 scientific treatise is known as The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy.
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