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They started with rigorously-defined phenomena. Galileo was famous for taking careful and exacting measurements - he was able to figure out some of the world's rules because he could notice the relationships between precisely-defined and -measured things.
Nobody gets anywhere, most especially in philosophy, without rigorous definitions of the relevant concepts. You rely on vague, intuitive understandings, and you accomplish nothing.