The objective of philosophical discipline is to develop the good mental habits of working through a problem carefully so as to advance one's understanding. This process proceeds, in the normal course of things, of very small increments in understanding.
Globslly, we are trying to "save the phenomena," or "save the data" --- that is, to be subject to at least one, but possibly more than one interpretaion of out logical system by being closed under proof-theoretic consequence, and being able to account for all of the dat5a that are determinate (without appeal ot so-called intuition).
I am heavily indebted for this understanding to a very recent discussion with Edward N. Zalta. Any errors of interpretation or inaccuracies or inadequacies of the remarks are entirely my own responsibility.
