...sciences, with the scientific statement. In Philosophical Investigations, however, we are told that 'philosophy may in no way interfere with the actual use of language; it can in the end only describe it'.1 Negatively, philosophy uncovers examples of nonsense resulting from our not understanding the...

...passages as the following: A philosophical problem has the form: "I don't know my way about." (§ 123) Philosophy may in no way interfere with the actual...use of language; it can in the end only describe it. For it cannot give it any foundation either. It leaves everything as it is. It also leaves mathematics...

...Wittgenstein so often stresses the purely descriptive, nonreformational character of philosophy; it "may in no way interfere with the actual use of language; it can in the end only describe it." Philosophy "leaves everything as it is."42 If, as Waismann says, philosophy is "one of the great liberating...

...That is no reason for him to follow Chomsky and turn up his nose at both the feast and the crumbs. 1 'Philosophy may in no way interfere with the actual...use of language; it can in the end only describe it. For it cannot give it any foundation either. It leaves everything as it is" (Pkilosophical Investigations,...

...language. If such exists, it can only be dispersed throughout real language, which is empirically given. "Philosophy may in no way interfere with the actual...of language; it can in the end only describe it." Description — the key word to phenomenology is brought to bear upon the behaviour of man speaking....

...languagegame." 2 "Philosophy simply puts everything before us, and neither explains nor deduces anything." 3 "Philosophy may in no way interfere with the actual...of language; it can in the end only describe it." 4 The task of Husserl's theory of meaning is likewise not to help us in deciding which expressions...

...which philosophy can uncover but never alter — ..." lo Compare this with Wittgenstein's dictum : "Philosophy may in no way interfere with the actual...of language; it can in the end only describe it." u Wittgenstein refers explicitly to language; Husserl does not. Surely words have senses; but are there...

...Law: A Modal Account, 128 8. Postmodern Jurisprudence, 151 Afterword, 181 Index, 183 Law and Truth Philosophy may in no way interfere with the actual...use of language; it can in the end only describe it. For it cannot give it any foundation either. It leaves everything as it is. Ludwig Wittgenstein Introduction:...

...unforeseeable ways. Lovibond's reading of Wittgenstein depends in part on her way of taking his remarks "Philosophy may in no way interfere with the actual use of language" (PI, 124) and "Grammar tells what kind of object anything is" (PI, 373). She sees that his remarks...

...physical element. 48 In one of his aphoristic remarks Wittgenstein observed that in its study of language, "Philosophy may in no way interfere with the actual...end only describe it .... It leaves everything as it is."2 The above remarks on truth and correspondence reflect a somewhat different point of view. Whether...