Talk:Kenkou Cross Q&A/@comment-93.140.160.22-20140628193939/@comment-93.140.160.22-20140628212612

Science is much like a qubit (quantum bit) sometimes is 0 sometimes is 1 and sometimes can be a number in between. That is like philosophy. Why can be 0 and not 1? Why can be 1 and not 0.5? This kind of questions made science today. Democritus made the atomic theory of the universe with philosophy. Philosophy is both art and science.Philsophy is a social science (which is again science).You have a wrong definition of science. It is meta-knowledge. Philosophy (philo-sophia- love for wisdom and sciencia-knowledge) and science are related and same thing. Your understanding of philosophy is a misconception. And I quote:

Science, on the other hand, is concerned with the material world, and with the systematic discovery of certainty within that world. This might seem to be the complete opposite of philosophy, which tends towards the abstract, reasoned evaluation of things, rather than empirical data.

However, philosophy seems to  be science taken to new levels. All branches of science take it as self-evident that our senses don’t deceive us in their representation of an outside world. Given this premise, science seeks to explain phenomena that the senses present. We see, for example, that things fall to the ground when we drop them. Science asks, why? Philosophy, then, is the next level of inquiry; it asks, for instance, how do we know that things fall to the ground when dropped? Can we be sure of the existence of objects, or of the ground? What sort of thing is a physical object?

The same rigor that’s present in science, of testing and retesting hypotheses, is also present in philosophy. Various theories are debated. The unsatisfactory ones are discarded, and the more secure ones are retained. Over time, we can indeed see that progress has been made.