I like writing as a philosopher because:

One can write in first person as much as one likes!

And we get to use silly analogies and generally be a bit funny and sarcastic. And no-one cares what words I use to start sentences or paragraphs with or whether you split infini-tives or end on the word preposition. Which is good 'cause those rules I really don't understand.

But that said I don't like it when I need to soon get 5,000 words done (the due date being 4pm on Friday) or that apparently comedy must be sacrificed for clarity and making caracitures of theories is frowned upon - which is pants 'cause that is mostly all I do, ever.

I have written several conclusions so far, none sufficiently academic and all getting ahead of myself, so I though I'd put one here just to make sure it gets used. It's a great example of fun imagery and any discworld fan surely love it they will...

"I wanted certainty in the kind of way in which people want religious faith. I thought that certainty is more likely to be found in mathematics than elsewhere. But I discovered that many mathematical demonstrations, which my teachers expected me to accept, were full of fallacies, and that, if certainty were indeed discoverable in mathematics, it would be in a new field of mathematics, with more solid foundations than those that had hitherto been thought secure. But as the work proceeded, I was continually reminded of the fable about the elephant and the tortoise. having constructed an elephant upon which the mathematical world could rest, I found the elephant tottering, and proceeded to construct a tortoise to keep the elephant from falling. But the tortoise was no more secure than the elephant, and after some twenty years of very arduous toil, I came to the conclusion that there was nothing more that I could do in the way of making mathematical knowledge indubitable." - Bertrand Russell, Portraits from Memory 1956

It is my view that, as with religious faith, mathematics depends on the existence of something bigger than us, something with apparent paradoxes that lies somewhere beyond our limit of though. We can reach it in part but only through an intuitive belief. Whether there is a God, a Form, or a Foundation is yet to be seen but none are restricted by finitude of either capacity or reason, in the way that we currently are.

Ta da! Back to the grind stone...