In his highly significant and provocative book, The Concept of Mind, Gilbert Ryle undertakes to show that the Cartesian theory of two worlds, the physical world characterized by publicity and the mental world characterized by privacy, inaccessibility to all but one, is a “myth” created by misunderstandings of language. His method is an excellent example of theWittgensteinian method of diagnosing the origin of puzzling philosophical theories as pointless, confusing departures from ordinary language. If, for example, a man puzzles how on earth it is possible ever to verify a proposition about the future since, after all, one cannot observe an event that has not yet occurred, his puzzle is of the kind which can be effectively dissolved by the Wittgensteinian treatment.
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KEUPINK, A., SHIEH, S. (2006). SEMANTIC ANALYSIS AND PSYCHOPHYSICAL DUALISM (1952). In: KEUPINK, A., SHIEH, S. (eds) THE LIMITS OF LOGICAL EMPIRICISM. SYNTHESE LIBRARY, vol 334. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4299-X_18
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