• Drusas@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I doubt that. Science and philosophy used to be considered very closely related. Many people we think of as philosophers were really both scientists and philosophers in their time.

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      Yeah, an awful lot of ancient civilizations knew an awful lot about astronomy and presumably it wasn’t all just dictated to them on clay tablets by Ishtar or whoever