the historical opinion prevalent among philosophers, namely that philosophy a priori has something material to contribute to science. Hägerström undeniably reduced the reach of the philosophical argument from that of conveying necessary and universal material truths of science, to that of being a support upon which a special science could rest when seeking to secure formally the validity of its own material results. Philosophy thus merely polices the boundaries of science. Philosophy, according to this view, is only analytical with regard to other sciences, but never synthetically or materially prescribing. Philosophy will thus only help the scientist to determine whether a judgment is valid or true, but will never be that validity or truth itself. a ca l l f o r s c i e n t i f i c p u r i t y 199
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