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Yes, it can make one better, but it need not.
Here is an example. Right now, the semantics for the word 'ought' is a hot topic in metaethics. The reason is that lots of philosophical debates about what people ought to do are based on certain assumptions, and these assumptions are sometimes inconsistent with the semantics for 'ought'. Anyway, if you don't know any modal logic and so don't know any deontic logic (the logic of 'ought'), then you will have a hard time following the debate about the semantics for 'ought'. And so you will have a hard time figuring out whether you are making unrealistic assumptions about what people ought to do. See Matthew Chrisman's book The Meaning of 'Ought' for a great introduction and sophisticated treatment.
Of course, not every issue in philosophy is related to logic in such a way.