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Is philosophy a science in Whitehead's view? How is the ostensible contradiction here to be resolved?

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Philosophy (=metaphysics, cosmology)is a science in that it is an expression of "rationalism," the drive to understand in terms of general principles. On the other hand, it is not a science because its object is the strictly generic, as distinct from the specific, and, however apparently paradoxically, this means that it is more concrete, less abstract than any of the special sciences. It has to do with the individual as such-and therefore with that which is more concrete than the object of any special science, although, since philosophy deals with it as sllch, in its generic nature or e~nce, philosophical concepts are also, in a sense, the most abstract.