What I give is the morphology of the use of an expression. I show that it has kinds of uses of which you had not dreamed. In philosophy one feels forced to look at a concept in a certain way. What I do is suggest, or even invent, other ways of looking at it. I suggest possibilities of which you had not previously thought. You thought that there was one possibility, or only two at most. But I made you think of others. Furthermore, I made you see that it was absurd to expect the concept to conform to those narrow possibilities.

The difficulty in philosophy is to say no more than we know. (p. 45)

A good guide will take you through the more important streets more often than he takes you down side streets; a bad guide will do the opposite. In philosophy I…

But ordinary language is all right. (p. 28)

I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thi…

Faced with the nonsense question 'What is the meaning of a word?' and perhaps dimly recognizing it to be nonsense, we are nevertheless not inclined to give it …

The tendency has always been strong to believe that whatever received a name must be an entity or thing, having an independent existence of its own; and if no …