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soulofmischieftoday at 3:27 PM0 repliesview on HN

I'm sorry, but you clearly lack the most basic understanding of scientific history, and do not understand what philosophy even is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_scientific_method

> Aristotle pioneered scientific method in ancient Greece alongside his empirical biology and his work on logic, rejecting a purely deductive framework in favour of generalisations made from observations of nature.

Aristotle, the famous philosopher and mathematician.

If you cannot understand the very nature of where our modern scientific frameworks came from, how it relates to rationalism, itself a philosophical concept, then you cannot see that philosophy underpins every bit of science we have today. Philosophy gives us the tools to decide when to reasonably trust or distrust observations and intuitions. It is the foundational science that allows the rest of humanity's scientific research to be taken seriously.