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The task of philosophy, first and foremost, is to communicate the ever new results of scientific research to common people – common educated people – so as to modify their ways of thinking, enabling the common person to face the challenges of a changing world, and the changes in our knowledge of the world. This philosophical task is best fulfilled today by what is known as common-sense realism. Common-sense realism professes the principle that the world forms a unity: common people believe, and they believe everyone believes it too, that there is a single physical world common to us and all other people and sentient beings who are now alive or who have ever lived, and they believe that the world is made up of objects, events, and states of affairs that are independent of the thoughts and experiences of what the people have of it. Philosophy if not taking into account of the ever new results of science is empty, but science without philosophy is blind. Science delivers valid data about the world, constructs working theories to accommodate these data, conducts experiments, makes predictions, helps to design instruments. Science however does not give us a world-view. It is philosophy that – filtering and interpreting scientific theories – provides us with a world-view. In the expression ‘world-view’ the element ‘view’ should be emphasized. Common sense cannot imagine anything that cannot be visualized – the philosophy of common sense is, necessarily, also a philosophy of images.