I have been thinking about how in the past there was not necessarily a distinction between a scientist or a philosopher. They were both intellectual truth seekers.

Nowadays people seem to use the terms science and philosophy contrastingly which has always confused me because I see science as a successful offshoot of a particular philosophy, namely empiricism.

I’ve made sense of this contrast by essentially equating the word philosophy with rationalism - the attempt to gain knowledge through rational means, while equating the word science with empiricism - the attempt to gain knowledge through sensory means.

Is this a fair/accurate framework to understand the colloquial uses of these words?