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A CRITICAL ACCOUNT OF LINGUISTIC PHILOSOPHY AND A STUDY IN IDEOLOGY
by ERNEST GELLNER
with an introduction by BERTRAND RUSSELL
BEACON PRESS BEACON HILL BOSTON
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1959 by Ernest Gellner
First published in Great Britain in 1959 by Victor Gollancz, Ltd.
First published in the United States in 1960 by the Beacon Press
Printed in the United States of America
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The later Wittgenstein... seems to have grown tired of serious thinking and to have invented a doctrine which would make such an activity unnecessary. I do not for one moment believe that the doctrine which has these lazy consequences is true...
The desire to understand the world is, they think, an outdated folly.
Bertrand Russell
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Ernest Gellner, on leaving Oxford (where he was a scholar of Balliol), became an Assistant in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. He is at present Reader in Sociology at the London School of Economics, and is responsible for the teaching of philosophy in his Department.
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I AM GREATLY indebted to Mrs. E. Llewellyn for secretarial assistance, to Donald Aldridge for designing the diagram, to Charles Taylor and Arnold Kaufman for reading the book at various stages and making valuable suggestions, and to Norman Birnbaum, Dennis Duerden and Norman Hotopf for reading parts of it and making critical or encouraging comments. The responsibility for the views expressed is of course mine only.
My philosophical debts are obvious or indicated in the text. But I should also express my thanks to the members of the Social Anthropology Department at the L.S.E., who taught me how, without prejudice to its validity, one should see a set of related ideas and practices as a system of mutually supporting, and sometimes conflicting parts, and interpret it in terms of the services it performs and the conditions it requires in the social context of which it is a part.
But my greatest individual debt, and a very considerable one indeed, is to John Hajnal, whose painstaking notes and patient discussions have helped me to be less confused than would otherwise be the case.
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Chapter I: Of Linguistic Philosophy
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Chapter II: Of Language
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Chapter III: Of Philosophy
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Chapter IV: Of the World
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Chapter V: Of Knowledge
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Chapter VI: Structure and Strategy
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