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Consider the traditional `` four fields '' of philosophy: logic, ethics, epistemology and esthetics.

It is a commonplace that to the degree these special preserves of past philosophic hunting grounds establish an empirical content and suitable methodological criteria, they move away from philosophy as such.

What is left to traditional systems of philosophy is, in effect, only the history of these fields prior to their becoming rigorous enough to abide by the canons of scientific method.

In this situation, philosophy has survived by separating itself from metaphysics, by showing the ultimate questions to be the meaningless questions.