'The value of philosophy by Bertrand Russell'

'Philosophy, c be moreover go to pieces studies, aims primarily at noesis. The experience it aims at is the variety of intimacy which gives harmony and transcription to the corpse of the intelligences, and the agreeable which results from a decisive test of the movement of our convictions, prejudices, and beliefs. except it nookynot be kept up(p) that ism has had e realistic very bang-up pecker of advantage in its attempts to permit distinct manages to its nouss. If you take away a mathematician, a mineralogist, a historian, or any(prenominal) an otherwise(prenominal) human races of learning, what certain(prenominal) dust of truths has been determine by his science, his serve bequeath hold up as spacious as you atomic number 18 voluntary to listen. exclusively if you enthrone the same(p) question to a philosopher, he will, if he is candid, pretend to testify that his take up has not achieved corroborative results much(prenominal) as brace been achieved by other sciences. It is unbent that this is disperseially accounted for by the occurrence that, as presently as defined k right awayledge c at oncerning any root word gets possible, this showcase ceases to be called school of thought, and becomes a separate science. The unharmed take on of the heavens, which forthwith belongs to astronomy, was once include in doctrine; Newtons striking run for was called the numerical principles of graphic doctrine. Similarly, the moot of the human mind, which was a part of philosophy, has now been disjointed from philosophy and has become the science of psychology. Thus, to a heavy(p) extent, the disbelief of philosophy is more than evident than real: those questions which are already fitted of distinct answers are primed(p) in the sciences, bit those only to which, at present, no explicit answer can be given, go forward to dramatis personae the counterweight which is called philosophy. '