John, I have to disagree respectfully. Science also studies universals, or the big picture. Newton did not formulize how that single apple in his garden fell to the ground but how EVERY apple (or Plato's ideal concept of an apple) in the universe fall to the ground. There is no science of unique objects. Art, on the other hand, deals with a single particular apple that stands before you in all its unique glory. So in that, philosophy and science are very similar. They both ask rational questions about universals. But what they cover with that method differs. When we inquire about the universals or particulars not on the basis of reason but revelation, faith, and belief, then we call it magic or religion.