Anecdotally, my engagement with philosophy resources, philosophers, and philosophy enthusiasts hasn’t been supportive of this claim.

In particular, I have found them both incurious about math/logic (outside of specifically the parts labelled ‘logic’ as far as they relate to rhetoric) and their verbal skills to be lacking (more specifically, their inability/unwillingness to define their terms).

Also anecdotally, I really enjoyed my philosophy and logic courses in college. But, admittedly, my professors were closely aligned with the sciences in my school. One class was even taught by two professors: one from philosophy and one from science.

Daringly published in Journal of the American Philosophical Association.

Studying philosophy well, and actually learning how to do it, makes you a better thinker. Yes, just like running will make you a better runner.

However, doing it poorly, will make you worse. Lots and lots of casual consumers of philosophy dont’ study it. They just read it passively and parrot it back out. Sort of like running for 200m and feeling like that is as good as running a 2km.