The Jury's Never in on Most Philosophical Questions

i like the fact that you can respect and even revere questions that philosophy raises, without pretending that we're on the brink of settling them. And i don't like the idea that philosophy as it matures ought to become more and more like science. I'm totally behind the analytic project, if it's all about clarity. But i think equally dangerous is premature formalization or a certain kind of bloody mindedn this way. You make a choice. Which one do you want to give up? A thing? Philosophyi supposed to be a little bit mysterious, and that crucial to its appeal. That would just mean there wasn't an occasion for philosophy any more. Something like that comes into