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Here's the short story if anyone's interested. I think it's okay: https://alltimeshortstories.com/salty-coffee-a-love-story/

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Massimo Pigliucci - Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk
The role of philosophy in each of these cases was to explore the intellectual terrain and clear up the conceptual mud until ideas and techniques were mature enough to permit a shift to empirically based inquiry.

Massimo Pigliucci - Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk
Then again, arguably this peculiar relationship between science and philosophy is nothing new. Philosophy has often been the placeholder for areas of intellectual inquiry that have subsequently moved to the domain of science.

Massimo Pigliucci - Almost Science
Of course, if one begins with the common assumption that physics is not only the queen of the sciences, but that science is in turn the sovereign of all intellectual disciplines, then it is an insufferable insult for string theory to be "downgraded" to mere philosophy (or even to purely mathematical work).