Already this claim fails to withstand scrutiny. I already treated John Lock elsewhere in this thread, so for variety let's consider another crucial figure from the Age of Enlightenment: Francis Bacon. Was Bacon a philosopher? Maybe. But, before we concede that he was, what else was he? He was: a bureaucrat, a politician, an attorney, an architect, a scientist, an author, a political theorist, and a theologian, at least. He read Latin at Trinity, not "philosophy", which can't be identified as a distinct discipline at this time. He rejected Aristotelianism which elsewhere in this thread has been described as "the gold standard" of physics, so ponder that for a second.

If "the entire enlightenment" is primarily a PHILOSOPHICAL notion that did pay off, then surely Francis Bacon as one of the most important figures of the Age of Enlightenment was himself PRIMARILY a philosopher, and yet was he? He was many things: a bureaucrat, a politician, an attorney, an architect, a scientist, an author, a political theorist, a theologian, and yes I suppose a philosopher. But being so many things, can we really say that he was primarily a PHILOSOPHER, thus contributing to the claim that the entire enlightenment was primarily a PHILOSOPHICAL notion? Let everyone judge for themselves.