文档介绍：Ordinary language philosophy
Ordinary language philosophy is a method of doing philosophy, rather than a set of doctrines. It is diverse in its
methods and attitudes. It belongs to the general category of analytic philosophy, which has as its principal goal
the analysis of concepts rather than the construction of a metaphysical system or the articulation of insights about
the human condition. The method is to use features of certain words in ordinary or non-philosophical contexts as
an aid to doing philosophy. The uses in non-philosophical contexts are taken to be paradigmatic; it is in them that
meaning lives and moves and has its being. All ordinary language philosophers agree that classical philosophy
suffered from an inadequate methodology that accounts for the lack of progress. But proponents of the method do
not agree about whether philosophical problems are solved or dissolved; that is, they do not agree about whether
philosophical problems are genuine problems for which there are solutions or whether they are merely
pseudo-problems, which can at best be diagnosed.
1 The justification of the method
Ordinary language philosophy flourished between 1940 and 1965. It was practised most vigorously at the
University of Oxford although it had distinguished practitioners in places as remote from each other as Nebraska in
the USA and Adelaide in Austra