It took me 42 yrs to SERIOUSLY look at Philosophy, which I did
   for 9 months last year and now, I'm just hanging around for
   friends I've made in the process. I discovered what I kinda
   already knew: I learned what I needed to know about boolean
   logic and the excluded middle via experiences in programming and
   math, and the higher valued logics through experiences in poetry
   and wordplay, thinking through issues that had no binary
   resolve, etc. Yet, there's limits to logic, even the multivalued
   logics. Not everything resolves to words or concepts as atomic.
   [or numbers as atomic for that matter]. You can go very far
   indeed, but some things are beyond it. I believe philosophy *is*
   useful for, as you said, gathering multiple perspectives on
   things and helpful in developing some clarity of thought. As a
   basis for life though? Eh. It can become a script then or an app
   but not a life. Or maybe it can. I don't know. That's my main
   philosophy: I don't know grin emoticon