Philosophical ruminations

According to Ambrose Pierce, "all are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher." This statement suggests that a person who spends much of his time contemplating ideas about life is in constant development of philosophical possibilities. The first dictionary definition of the word philosophy reads that it is "the study of the principles underlying all real knowledge." This provides a general, somewhat vague and technical concept of the significance of the word. The following one, however seems to be a more insightful elaboration into the seemingly ambiguous…