The first characteristic of the new philosophy is that it abandons the claim to a special philosophical method... It regards philosophy as essentially one with science, differing... merely by the generality of its problems, and by the fact that it is concerned with the formation of hypotheses where empirical evidence is still lacking.... The new philosophy... is constructive, but as science is constructive, bit by bit and tentatively. It has a special technical method of construction, namely mathematical logic....3