Abstract
According to the analysts every word has a simple object for its meaning. But the way we actually use a word like ‘hope’, for example, often tends to cloud its meaning, so we have to dig deep for it. If we analyse all cases of hoping, we will eventually discover what they all have in common. This common element is what the word ‘hope’ really means; it is the essence of hope. And we can if we are careful experience essences. We can as it were see the meaning, the object, the essence, so that no doubt can remain.
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© 1977 Chris Gudmunsen
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Gudmunsen, C. (1977). Sensations and Language. In: Wittgenstein and Buddhism. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-03128-3_3
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