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philosophy is like try to nail Jell-O to a tree. But it seems that perhaps the best place to start is with a definition of philosophy itself, after which we
can move on to understanding how it can be used to investigate other concepts. Here is the definition from Blackburn: "philosophy (Gk., love of knowledge or wisdom) The study of
the most general and abstract features of the world and categories with which we think: mind, matter, reason, proof, truth, etc. In philosophy, the concepts with which we approach the
world themselves become the topic of enquiry" (Blackburn, 2005). In other words, how do we know what we know? Blackburn writes that a philosophy of a discipline like history or
physics doesnt seek to understand historical or physical questions so much as it wants to "lay bare their foundations and presuppositions" (Blackburn, 2005). That is, he is questioning the very
basis on which various scientific disciplines rest. Since philosophy is not a "hard" science in the sense that no one can "prove" anything right or wrong, it would seem to
be a poor choice for analysis. However, rigorous thinking is an excellent way of examining even the most difficult disciplines. Martinich reviews a book by Scott Soames; he asks what
20th century analytic philosophy comes to, and reveals that "Soames thinks its two most important achievements are (i) the recognition that philosophical speculation must be grounded in pre-philosophical thought, and
(ii) the success achieved in understanding, and separating one from another, the fundamental methodological notions of logical consequence, logical truth, necessary truth, and a priori truth" (Martinich, 2005, p. 125).
Martinich himself believes that analytical philosophy has "given philosophers many techniques for attacking conceptual problems, a great deal of information about the structure and nature of language, and has decisively
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