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Philosophy of Nature!

How many of you know ‘getting to philosophy’ phenomenon in Wikipedia? Okay let me explain. Pick a Wikipedia article out of a random choice or your favorite topic. Click the first link, non italicized or not in parentheses in the main body, and repeat the process for subsequent articles, 97% of the time leads to the Philosophy article. It literally ends with Philosophy. Why is this happening? It was not intentional but, is mainly due to the certain writing style used to structure any Wikipedia article. We all are familiar with the why? Why? Or 5 why analysis. But here it basically works on what? What? context.  If you keep asking what for every definition, you will slowly enter into the existence related terms and finally it ends up with philosophy. Alternatively, you can say that the roots of all definition lie in philosophies. Prior to Aristotle at about 1BC, the term science did not exist. Everything is seen and accepted as Philosophy of nature or natural philosophy. Only after...