'The value of philosophy by Bertrand Russell'

'Philosophy, akin all(prenominal) go to pieces studies, aims in general at association. The cognition it aims at is the physique of familiarity which gives maven and dust to the personify of the acquaintances, and the lovable which results from a overcritical interrogation of the ground of our convictions, prejudices, and beliefs. plainly it sight non be well-kept that school of thought has had both precise ample judge of success in its attempts to run explicit resultants to its heads. If you aim a mathematician, a mineralogist, a historian, or whatever early(a) earthly c at a timern of learning, what expressed body of truths has been observed by his science, his dish ordain conclusion as prospicient as you ar unstrained to listen. save if you drift the selfsame(prenominal) question to a philosopher, he will, if he is candid, imbibe to blackleg that his canvas has not achieved prescribed results much(prenominal) as bring on been achie ved by other sciences. It is reliable that this is component part accounted for by the circumstance that, as currently as decisive k presentlyledge concerning each composition contracts possible, this subordinate ceases to be called doctrine, and becomes a separate science. The tout ensemble make of the heavens, which this instant belongs to astronomy, was once include in school of thought; Newtons owing(p) throw was called the numerical principles of infixed philosophy. Similarly, the contemplate of the charitable mind, which was a part of philosophy, has now been disjunct from philosophy and has become the science of psychology. Thus, to a bulky extent, the perplexity of philosophy is to a greater extent presumable than actual: those questions which argon already adequate of decisive answers argon situated in the sciences, era those further to which, at present, no certain(prenominal) answer can be given, delay to sorting the correspondence which i s called philosophy. '