Bertrand Russell in his essay, Philosophy for Laymen, expressed the difficulties a common person finds in his life along with the utility of Philosophy to tackle such problems. Being Humanist, he has a deep concern for the problems of laymen, that's why, he suggests remedy for them. Some important of the problems he has talked about in his this essay is *Dogmatism* and *Scepticism*. The former is 'certainity' of knowing while the latter is 'opposite' to it, uncertaininty and it takes us to 'inaction'.
He says that both these beliefs, in more or less way, has offered hindrance in the way to progress. For example, the people who belief in *Dogmatism* thought that what they know is full and final and there are no other point of views upon it. This idea can easily be dismantled as we it, often, leads to mistrusrt and intolerance. He gives the example of 'a picnic' to justify it: you're going to enjoy a picnic and think that weather will remain fine throughout the day, but if by some stroke of unfortunate the weather turns cloudy and it rains, your fellows may get wet, and some weak fellows may get Pneumonia because you've not taken raincoat considering your perception certain. The same thing has been pointed out by John Locke, that we have partial understanding or knowledge about things. So we should not be extreme in our hypothesis for they can be proven false.While considering this thing in our each matter of life, we can avoid a lot of our misconceptions going on with our collegues. We've to choose a moderate point of view. This will help us making out problems and their solutions.
-Muhammad Abrar
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