Although I am a mathematician, I still study philosophy . Here are a few lessons I’ve learned about that study. Philosophy is very much different than mathematics in that often the language is imprecise. Below are a few lessons I've learned trying to understand this strange world. These remarks apply to general philosophy, not the philosophies of mathematics and science, which are quite different. Philosophy often is deeply involved with vague subject matter such as “truth” and “love.” Yet these are very important topics to understand. There are quick answers and highly complex ones. Your understanding is often connected with your belief systems as well as critical thinking. It is difficult to be unbiased. (In a twist, one could argue the being unbiased is itself a form of bias.) Every contributor often discusses only small variations to the body of knowledge. Even the meaning of some philosophers changes with time as the meanings of words change and the culture drifts in other d
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