The purpose of philosophy is to create a conceptualization of a field that needs to be created or a concise analysis of a field that has already been created. Both carry the same weight when it comes to their potential influence on humanity and human inquiry, as it’s important to discern thoroughly into their roots. Where a field is currently in the process of being examined and compiled into something feasible and for the ages, it should be classified and distinguished from others as to avoid confusion as to it’s nature and how it plays into other fields. In order for one to derive a conclusion as to what was taken into account when defining and compiling a field of study, one must examine it’s origins and trace through what was considered in order to set aside the field as it’s own venture or being.
To truly grasp the nature of philosophy and the purpose of it’s existence, we first need to inquire into the nature of the human mind and how it functions. Through the observation, documentation and analysis of the human mind as time has progressed and more detail has been added, we come to the realization that the subject matter of philosophy is linked to how the human mind perceives reality, and differentiates between different objects in physical reality, as well as proposed ideas that are not yet real but could be created and organized by humans to become reality or some simulated version thereof. In order to differentiate between what category a field should fall into, we first must recognize how we perceive the three categories into which a field can be categorized, and those are the theological, or fictitious, the metaphysical, or abstract, and the scientific, or concrete. From this we concur that the human mind bases it’s method of philosophic inquiry and the act of “philosophizing” relevant to the nature of the category, as each comes with it’s own process of inquiry, be it theological, metaphysical or scientific.
From this are born the three categories or classifications of philosophy, each of which are separate, and require different modes of reasoning in order to come to some form of logically consistent conclusion. In relation to each other, these three philosophical categories can be interlinked with the following logic: The theological classification is one in which humans try to understand the world as well as it’s mechanics and attempt to attribute labels to it, the metaphysical classification is one in which there is a transitional process from the theological to the scientific, and the third scientific classification attempts to formulate concrete examples utilizing the scientific process and method whereby the principles and rules of a science are so firmly embedded in our reality that to repeat them and apply them we would incarnate the same result each time.