The nation . rposes—to expose the banalities of common senseand to prick the prejudices of thelinguistic market place. Indeed, it hasalways been used to examine criticallythe validity of any language, whetherordinary, scientific, political, or religious. According to the Linguistic philos-opher, Our common stock of wordsembodies all the distinctions men havefound worth drawing. Thus we cannever learn anything that we dont knowalready as part of this preferred contains all the common knowledgewe need to live by if we but learn totap its hidden resources — the wisdomof common sense. One
The nation . rposes—to expose the banalities of common senseand to prick the prejudices of thelinguistic market place. Indeed, it hasalways been used to examine criticallythe validity of any language, whetherordinary, scientific, political, or religious. According to the Linguistic philos-opher, Our common stock of wordsembodies all the distinctions men havefound worth drawing. Thus we cannever learn anything that we dont knowalready as part of this preferred contains all the common knowledgewe need to live by if we but learn totap its hidden resources — the wisdomof common sense. One standard prac-tice of Linguistic Philosophy, therefore — one of the four pillars upon whichit rests, according to Mr. Gellner — isto argue from the customary use ofwords to the truth or the falsity of aphilosophical theory. For example, it iscustomary to say of a man who maj»-ries a girl without external compulsiouthat he did so of his own free there is a linguistically correct use 183 NEW. ADVENTURES OF THE MIND Edited by Richard Thruelson and John Kohler. $ ANTHROPOLOGY OF FOLK RELIGION Edited by Charles Leslie. $ < II VRLEMAGNE, Fhom i in 11 wimiii io the CrossBy Richard Winston. $ WAGNER AS MAN AND ARTISTBy Ernest Newman. $ THE SHAPE OF CONTENT BijBcnShahn. $ New in the Vintage Russian Library THE SOVIETS IN WORLD AFFAIRSBy Louis Fischer. $ 1,85 YEARS OF CHILDHOOD/?!/ Sergey Aksahdov. $ \RLY JOYS. A Novel By Konstantin Fedin. $ PAN-SLAVISM,Its History and Ideology ByllansKohn. $ THE VINTAGE TURGENEV, 2 Volumes. $ each Distributed by ALFRED A. KNOPF, Inc. 501 Madison Ave., N. Y. 22 NEW MODERNLIBRARY PAPERBACKS 95t THE SONG OFIGORS CAMPAIGN Translated by Vladimir Nabokov. COMMUNITAS By Paul and Percival Goodman. $ MUSIC FOR THE MAN WHO ENJOYS HAMLET By Bernard Haggin. 95$ LIFE STUDIESBy Robert Lowell. 95$ MAN IN MODERN FICTIONBy Edmund Fuller. 95$ THE COMPLETE PLAYS OFJOHN M. SYNGE $ THE UNITED STATES INWORLD
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