system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: How does philosophy progress, as a field, if the theories can't be empirically tested?
gpt
Philosophy is about the questions, not the answers. You could theorize an answer for a previous question and ask new questions with that premise.
Edit: philosophy was not always that way. It is the root of all sciences, like math, phisics, biology, etc. Different philosophers used to specialize in different fields. It was all philosophy. So there are answers to some of the questions. But it became more and more abstract over the years. But the same happen to math. Advanced math is very very abstract.