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Originally Posted by George
It was in the 20th century that revealed the philosophy was correct. So, you are saying that both the philosophy and the confirming science happened in the 20th century. That helps.
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Ah, I am afraid my answer may have been premature in that respect. The philosophc position in question here may be older than the 20th century (I don't know, actually). What I can say is that the actual application of this position on an experimentally testable physical question was done in entirely in the 20th century.
This connenction, to my knowledge, was not there for theories of stallar formation. While one can say that Kant was ultimately proven correct in his hypothesis of stellar formation, one can't say (I think) that the physicists of the 20th century actually had Kant in mind while developing their models.