Mary Warnock once said that Sartre gave us not arguments or proofs but "a description so clear and vivid that when I thinhnk of his description and fit it to my own case, I cannot fail to see its application." It seems to me that this is a very good description of what Wittgenstein was doing, not just in the private language argument, but over and over again in his work.
Wednesday, 22 July 2009
Mary Warnock on Thinking
From the chapter Materialism and Relativism in Hilary Putnam's Renewing Philosophy:
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