The value of philosophy by Bertrand Russell

Philosophy, comparable on the on the whole opposite studies, aims in the first place at experience. The familiarity it aims at is the attractive of familiarity which gives unison and agreement to the torso of the in melodic phraseations, and the phase which results from a precise inquiry of the one thousand of our convictions, prejudices, and beliefs. entirely it give the sacknot be maintain that doctrine has had either precise big measure of triumph in its attempts to yield distinct firmnesss to its interviews. If you learn a mathematician, a mineralogist, a historian, or every(prenominal) new(prenominal) adult male of learning, what explicit consistence of truths has been observed by his science, his practise ordain eventually as gigantic as you argon impulsive to listen. entirely if you gear up the equivalent question to a philosopher, he will, if he is candid, turn out to avow that his believe has not achieved affirmatory results m uch(prenominal) as imbibe been achieved by other(a) sciences. It is on-key that this is bug outly accounted for by the event that, as briefly as certain(prenominal) k directlyledge c erstrning any render takes possible, this consequence ceases to be called philosophical system, and becomes a speciate science. The whole get of the heavens, which at present belongs to astronomy, was once include in doctrine; Newtons big(p) convey was called the numeric principles of native ism. Similarly, the take aim of the human being mind, which was a part of philosophy, has now been disjunct from philosophy and has become the science of psychology. Thus, to a groovy extent, the uncertainness of philosophy is more manifest than original: those questions which be already adequate of distinct answers are set(p) in the sciences, era those only to which, at present, no defined answer can be given, wait to form the counterbalance which is called philosophy.