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[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

And "philosopher" is just Ancient Greek for "lover of wisdom".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Science is generally a superset of philosophy if you try hard enough...