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By Peter Strawson
This quantity provides twenty-two uncollected philosophical essays by means of Sir Peter Strawson, one of many best philosophers of the second one 1/2 the 20th century. The essays (two of them formerly unpublished) are drawn from seven many years of labor, from 1949 to 2003. They span the extensive diversity of Strawson's paintings: metaphysics, epistemology, philosophical good judgment, philosophy of language, moral idea, and background of philosophy, besides metaphilosophical reflections and highbrow autobiography.
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It might, however, be said that while the unavailability of a satisfactory explanation in the special sense described was not a generally sufficient reason for declaring that a given expression was senseless, it was a sufficient reason in the case of the expressions of the analyticity group. But anyone who said this would have to advance a reason for discriminating in this way against the expressions of this group. The only plausible reason for being harder on these expressions than on others is a refinement on a consideration which we have already had before us.
The psychologist is concerned with the relation of these experiences to others of a different sort; the philosopher is concerned with their relation to the ordinary use of ethical language. ), and that we know this; and absurd to claim that we can say what such sentences say without using such words. For this isthe language we use in sharing and shaping our moral experience; and the occurrence of experience so shared, so shaped, is not brought into question. We are in the position of the careful phenomenalist, who, for all his emphasis on sense-experience, neither denies that there is a table in the dining room, nor claims to be able to assert this without using such words as ‘dining room’ and ‘table’.
16) statements which, seen in this light, did not appear to have this characteristic, and others again which presented an uncertain appearance. Then philosophers who were under the influence of this theory would tend to mark the supposed presence or absence of this characteristic by a pair of contrasting expressions, say ‘analytic’ and ‘synthetic’. Now in these circumstances it still could not be said that there was no distinction at all being marked by the use of these expressions, for there would be at least the distinction we have just described (the distinction, namely, between those statements which appeared to have and those which appeared to lack a certain characteristic), and there might well be other assignable differences too, which would account for the difference in appearance; but it certainly could be said that the difference these philosophers supposed themselves to be marking by the use of the expressions simply did not exist, and perhaps also (supposing the characteristic in question to be one which it was absurd to ascribe to any statement) that these expressions, as so used, were senseless or without meaning.