[PW] Fwd: Re: "Talk about talk" - a bit more context

[Dennis Lien]

>Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2006 10:46:56 -0600
>To: list at project-wombat.org
>From: Dennis Lien <d-lien at tc.umn.edu>
>Subject: Re: [PW]  "Talk about talk"
>
>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.


Variant searches teased out a bit more of the text:

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
correct negatively: it was right in denying that philosophy was about 
either the ...

On the positive side, Platonism was wrong: Ryle's answer was that philosophy
was "talk about talk," although not in the way in which ordinary grammar and
philology are ...


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