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"Dio" <dadaismo@tin.it> wrote in message news:<psasb.6842$9_.282814@news1.tin.it>...
> Science and philosophy (or epistemology) have been very important for our
> knowledge.
> But nowadays what is the main difference between science and philosophy?
> 
> What do you think about?
> 
> Thank you everybody
> 
> Bye bye
> Franco

There's more to philosophy than epistemology. Anyway, science is one
possible empirical arm of philosophy. Newton referred to science as
"experimental philosophy."

See RULE IV in

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/newton-princ.html

Natural philosophy is a sort of ontological foundation upon which one
can build science and theories in particular. It contains assumptions
about the eistence of things and "rules of operation of Nature," so to
speak. That ontology that is generally accepted is "convention" (which
includes the existence of the ordinary visible realm). All the rest
are just formal theoretical models. Setting up science is not a
scientific activity; it is a philosophic activity.

Just for your information, the modern physicist is not like his or her
predecessors of pre-WWII era physicists (such as Mach, Einstein, Bohr,
and Heisenberg) concerning philosophy and epistemology, who studied
and appreciated those subjects, and often quoted and referenced
philosophers. But today's physicist is more likely than not to scorn
both philosophy and philosophers with unrelenting invective.

Patrick