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Interest of the world

Among these surprising possibilities, doubt suggests that perhaps there is no table at all. Philosophy, if it cannot answer so many questions as we could wish, has at least the power of asking questions which increase the interest of the world, and show the strangeness and wonder lying just below the surface even in the commonest things of daily life.
Problems of Philosophy , Berrtand Russell, Chapter IWhat does "interest of" mean? I think the word intertest in this case mean "a https://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/british/feeling_1 of https://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/british/wanting to https://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/british/know_1 about or take part in something". Is it correct? Thanks!

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I don't think it means that. I take "increase the interest of the world" to mean "increase the extent to which the world is interesting (to us)".

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  • I take "increase the interest of the world" to mean "increase the extent to which the world is interesting (to us)".
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I don't think it means that. I take "increase the interest of the world" to mean "increase the extent to which the world is interesting (to us)".

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