/lit/ - Literature

>>11192674
I have tried to think of some framework in which this analogy holds, but I simply cannot. Because of this, let me break down exactly why this is wrong using my strongest idea, that the cat is some grand meaning or truth of the universe.

Philosophy would more accurately be described as the discussion around the cat, as well as any effort collectively to find it. There would be a school trying to describe it's minute features, one looking, listening, and smelling for it, one trying to figure new ways of looking, another discussing if it's finding is even important, and yet another taking that further and asking whether or not it exists and if it's sounds and smells are not but an illusion of a people hoping so hard to find it.

Metaphysics would specifically be the school actively looking for it.

Theology would be a branch of metaphysics that claims any relation of the cat to God, or that God is actively involved in either the search or hiding of the cat.

Science is one method devised that, in specific instances, allows people to narrow in on the cats location, never wholly but infinitely close.

After this all then, all fourteen-year-olds not understanding any of the schools, seeing the scientists at least say with some certainty in that area the cat likely is, they dismiss the others, and worship science. They post cringey things like "science is like magic but real" and other useless bs.