QUOTE : Contrary to the opinion which sees in philosophy only gratuitous hypotheses and unfounded claims, it must be said that philosophy, as much as science, seeks to arrive at an exact knowledge of what is. In this, there is no difference between the two, and if there is a really philosophical aspect of science insofar as it is not content with a mathematical description of reality, there is also a truly scientific aspect of philosophy in that it does not content itself with simply reshuffling presumptions. Both disciplines, that is, seek to *think* about reality in its truth