Words and Things [Book Review]

Review of Metaphysics 14 (2):362-362 (1960)
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This controversial book professes to be a "critical account of Linguistic Philosophy and a study of Ideology." It is clearly written and abounds with entertaining aphorisms. Philosophically important objections against the Oxford School are developed in the first hundred pages. The rest is highly repetitious, and, aside from rhetorical effects and remarks on the psychology and sociology of the movement, contribute little to a "refutation" of Linguistic Philosophy. As an alternative to Linguistic Philosophy, the book only vaguely hints to a "clean," "non-oblique," and "non-insinuated" form of naturalism.--A. P. D. M.

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