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Problem: “philosophy of x” vs. “x”

In numerous places in the expert-supplied taxonomies, we also noticed that cat- egory names sometimes included a “philosophy of” prefix and sometimes did not; examples include “artificial intelligence” vs. “philosophy of artificial intelligence,” “connectionism” vs. “philosophy of connectionism,” and so on.

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