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All I was concerned to do in Chapter 1 was to point out that the use of linguistic analysis as a mode of philosophical investigation has meant an inevitable return to metaphysical problems. In this chapter I propose to examine the relation between metaphysics and language. In a sense much of what I will say in this chapter has been implied in the preceding one. But I want to emphasize certain points and to clarify some others before I undertake to define what can be meant by ‘metaphysics’.
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Cf. my discussion of “The Uncommon Sense of Common Sense,” Revue Internationale de Philosophie, No. 14, October, 1950, pp. 462–468.
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© 1956 Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, Netherlands
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Kattsoff, L.O. (1956). Language and Metaphysics. In: Logic and the Nature of Reality. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-9282-8_2
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