That's my thinking too. When trying to define what philosophy is, I have settled on this: Philosophy is the reasoning about poorly defined things, using similar

That's my thinking too. When trying to define what philosophy is, I have settled on this: Philosophy is the reasoning about poorly defined things, using similarly fuzzy steps. This is not a value judgement. Once we get a better grip on an area, then, finding more proper definitions for its concepts, we branch it off as a subject of its own.