Has philosophy ever clarified mathematics?
&gt; Secondly, remember that broadly the point of philosophy is to make things not philosophy. In extremely simplistic historical terms, once natural philosophy becomes rigorous it becomes science, once philosophy of language became rigorous it became linguistics, and today we&#x27;re seeing philosophy of mind turn to neuroscience.<p>This is absolutely not correct, and elucidates little but the prejudices of the answerer. Philosophy of language has &#x2F;not&#x2F; become linguistics, philosophy of mind has &#x2F;not&#x2F; become neuroscience, and only a subset of natural philosophy has become natural science.<p>The philosophical questions discussed by Socrates have elided the grasp of both dogmatic rigor and empiricism for twenty-four hundred years, and there seems to be absolutely no reason to expect this to change.<p>The answerer has either no actual grasp of the history or content of philosophy, or has simply decided, apparently by fiat, to discard all but the most narrow positivism-flavored slice as nonsense.