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Twentieth-century philosophies of science may be classified into three generic types. They are romanticism, positivism and contemporary pragmatism. Each type has many representative authors advocating philosophies expressing similar concepts for such metalinguistic terms as “theory”, “law” and “explanation”. Philosophies within each generic classification have their differences, but are much more similar to each other than to those in different classifications.

Romanticism is a philosophy for the social sciences. Positivism and pragmatism is a general philosophy of science for all the empirical sciences. Positivism is based on Newtonian physics, while pragmatism is based on modern quantum physics.