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 | | Philosophy has been closely related to science, then; but philosophers disagree about whether it essentially ought to be. |
| | Traditionally philosophers have held that philosophers must use basically different methods from science, or only very specially refined versions of those methods: philosophy is done a priori, does not rely on experiment, and must be able to justify the methods science without depending on them It aslo depends on non-scientific methods, such as interpretation[?]. |
| | But many nowadays hold that philosophy is very close to science in its character and method; Analytic philosophy often urged that philosophers should emulate the methods of natural science; Quine later claimed that philosophy just is a branch of natural science, simply the most abstract one. |
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