Is philosophy still considered as 'mother of science' nowadays? Because i don't know relevance philosophy with the term mother of science in this days. (21st Century)
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No, it is not.... – Mauro ALLEGRANZA Oct 29 '20 at 18:17
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Duplicate of [PhilSE: https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/24699/philosophy-is-the-mother-of-all-science](https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/24699/philosophy-is-the-mother-of-all-science) See links in question for guidance. – J D Oct 29 '20 at 19:45
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I'm voted to close to consolidate with other post to try to reopen. – J D Oct 29 '20 at 19:48
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Mathematics is known as the queen of sciences. When we call a science mother, it must be able to produce other sciences. Of course there must be some philosophy behind each science. But there must be sciences before philosophy was born. Though there is observation, thought process etc. in philosophy, we can never say that the first thought was about the fundamentals of nature of knowledge, reality, and existence.
Sometimes each expert in other subjects would claim their subject as the mother of all sciences. If you are searching for a science giving importance to these aspects also, no subject that is being treated as science has the quality of a mother.
Though we can't say there is one such science that can produce other science, there must be something that keeps 'motherly subtle nature' and console like a mother. But most often people don't like to call it science or mother because it often seems 'naked -- without any ego' and careless about its progeny.
The following link would throw light on in this regard:
SonOfThought
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