Impossibillity?

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@chris,
The bit about physics was just an example. My only point was that the flowchart of science vs philosophy is
Do you/Can you test your statements? --- yes ---> You're a scientist!
            |
            No ---> You're a philosopher!

And you don't even seem to disagree. I have no idea what we're talking about. Aristotle was a philosopher and was wrong because he didn't/couldn't test his assumptions - I don't know how that challenges my point.
This is how I see it, if I am mistaken please explain it to me:
Engineers ask "how?"
Scientists ask "why?"
Philosophers ask "what?"
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@Cubbi, "I wonder how you define philosophy". I really dislike miscommunication. Let me try a Venn diagram of things that can be considered "intelligent thought".
1000 years ago       now
 ------------    ------------
| ---------- |  | ---------- |
||          ||  ||Philosophy||
||          ||  | ---------- |
||Philosophy||  | ---------- |
||          ||  ||          ||
||          ||  || Science  ||
| ---------- |  ||          ||
|            |  | ---------- |
 ------------    ------------

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There were strong sciences a 1000 years ago... and before that.
L B wrote:
This is how I see it, if I am mistaken please explain it to me:
Engineers ask "how?"
Scientists ask "why?"
Philosophers ask "what?"


Science doesn't ask why. That's more of a philosophical question.

I would say both scientists and engineers (being scientists) ask "how"
And Philosophers ask "why".


Also on the subject of philosophers:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4XXHaaiBA0

EDIT:
Oh, and as for who asks, "what":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TwYVWQsXmQ
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@Disch: :) I had a feeling that edit link would make me laugh.
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