What Philosophy Is(n't)

Philosophy is like science in that both seek to provide explanations. And explanations facilitate understanding. But philosophy is not a science, because with philosophy there is no method — there is only explanation.

What Philosophy Is(n't)

Philosophy is not the answering of empirical questions, although sometimes it involves the creation of a systematic way of answering them. And often it involves the displaying of a confusion underlying the formation of certain questions.

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Non-Descriptive Realism: realism about the mind-independent world as a whole (there is one way the world is in-itself), combined with conceptual relativism (there are multiple empirically equivalent descriptions that can be given of it).

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Knowle: an individual belief that counts as knowledge.