[PW] Re: "Talk about talk"

[Dennis Lien]

At 02:14 PM 11/30/2006, you wrote:
>Thanks to Fred Shapiro for checking JSTOR, and to Jeanne Schramm for
>suggesting a source, which (sad to say) did not pan out when checked.
>
>So I'm still looking for a Gilbert Ryle citation for "talk about talk",
>if anyone has any other ideas.
>
>-- Tom about Tom


Well, the JSTOR article you sought was dated 1967, but a google-in-book
search indicates he used it prior to 1966 anyway...


Metaphysics and Explanation: proceedings - Page 22
by William H Capitan - 1966 - 112 pages
According to Ryle, the answer given by Platonism had the virtue of being ...
wrong: Ryle's answer was that philosophy was "talk about talk," although 
not in ...

The google snippet view for this one doesn't extend enough to tell me if
it's footnoted, but it should be worth checking.  Our copies of the
proceedings are in storage, but I could get them out and see if no
Wombat has a copy closer to hand.

Or maybe you already have this citation and that's where the query
started...?

Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // d-lien at umn.edu