• sab@kbin.social
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    I guess people tend to look to astronomers for information about space, while the Fermi paradox probably borders more on philosophy than on astronomy. And in a lot of people minds philosophers are not real scientists, unlike astronomers.

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      1 year ago

      Science and Philosophy might not be exactly the same thing, but there is a lot of overlap, and a lot of people who do both.

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        1 year ago

        An overwhelming portion of what is hard science now was probably in the domain of philosophy once.

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          You don’t even have to go very far back to hit a time when scientists were called “natural philosophers”.