Two of my favorite things

"If theory adjudicates the rules of science, then so does philosophy (methodology). In the absence of demarcation, philosophy is just very general, very abstract science and has the same kind of prescriptive force for the practice of science as any scientific theory. Because of its generality and abstractness it will have less detailed bearing on day-to-day science then, say, prescriptions about the calibration of pH meters, but it must have the same kind of bearing."