One could argue that Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle derailed the atomists, and started the inevitable slide into metaphysical quackery. For hundreds of years, though, philosophy was chemistry, math, biology, astronomy, governance, psychology... basically anything that required contemplation or observation. Pythagoras, Caesar, Cicero, Galileo, Leibniz, Mach, Jung, and Einstein were all philosophers.
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