Well, it's not really a dichotomy because there are in-betweens. This is just division of labor, of course. Since Newton's time, the sciences have become too much for one person to know fully in detail, thus the increasing number of specializations. It's been a while since I posted that, but I think my point was that whatever was originally the case, natural philosophy is no longer a branch of philosophy (and that's why we don't call it that anymore, instead referring to it as science). I see an enormous separation between philosophy and science today.
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