[int_19h]

The point is that Unix philosophy is mostly a retroactive justification of why things are the way they are, and not really a coherent philosophy that drove the design of those things, even though it is now often represented as such.

[flavio81]

Correct. The Unix philosophy is based on hagiography.

[skydhash]

That's the point of philosophy: to give a coherent, empirical explanation on why that thing is good or bad.