From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Fri Jan 10 2003 - 12:47:38 GMT
Hi John W:
> The Wittgenstein overveiw by P.M.S. Hacker that i am reading has this
> statement in it."In philosophy we are constantly misled by grammatical
> similarities which mask profound logical differences. So we ask questions
> which are intelligible when asked of certain catergories of things, but
> which make no sense when asked of things that belong to a different
> category"
Interesting. Could you cite some examples?
> This is exactly what happens here and as a layman, when I came here and saw
> it I thought what the hell is going on here, there just talking around in
> circles and arguing about grammar. Turns out thats what philosophy is.
Again, some examples of "arguing about grammar" would be
appreciated.
Platt
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