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There are questions which people often ask: Is philosophy socially desirable? Has it any practical usefulness? How will it help me? Where is the time for it, anyway? Such questions would not be asked if the definition of philosophy had been understood, for they betray the questioner's confusion of it with metaphysics.

-- Notebooks Category 20: What Is Philosophy? > Chapter 1 : Toward Defining Philosophy > # 138