How much do you like philosophy?

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Actually science functions by having people make hypothesis logically and then checking if they're real. Philosophy stops right before the checking. What's the point?

But there would be no such thing as a scientific method in the first place, nor any kind of interpretation, for that matter, if we didn't have philosophy.

Even when you're discussing the existence of God or about religion with theists on this forum - that is philosophy also.

Thus you wouldn't be able to refute any theists on this forum without using philosophy.

Yea I'm aware of that. But philosophy breeds science because back then people did not have the capacity to test things. A lot of philosophers philosophized about the natural world, the atom was a philosophical idea, but now we've shown that you can split an atom (badly named perhaps), but now we can make new theories and philosophical ideas about nature and see how they test out. Medicine used to be practiced as a philosophy and not a science, that didn't work out well. Philosophy may inform thought and belief, but everything does, everyone is capable of imagination and belief. I'm not quite sure what philosophy actually lays claim to, is it logic? Is it theories? Is it ideas?

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By that I mean you cannot disprove your null hypothesis or your hypothesis and you wouldn't know if your theory is right or wrong. So all you have is that theory or hypothesis but I do not see where you go from there. Not everything that is logical is true or real.

You didn't answer the question.

You asked me what I meant by it contributes nothing, I've explained what I meant by that. I meant how do you move forward. Which I admit was a bad and incorrect way to phrase it, but I honestly do not know what it contributes in addition to that, but you're right that could be just a limitation of my imagination and not fact.

Anyway I'm not here to discredit philosophy, just one of the many people who don't get it and have no interest in it.