‘But let me next ask you this. What power do names have for us? What’s the good of them?’ (Plato, Cratylus, 435d) A strange difficulty with philosophical writing is that unlike thought, which moves all the time, writing stays still. Kafka’s one-paragraph story
Philosophy and ordinary language
Philosophy and ordinary language
Philosophy and ordinary language
‘But let me next ask you this. What power do names have for us? What’s the good of them?’ (Plato, Cratylus, 435d) A strange difficulty with philosophical writing is that unlike thought, which moves all the time, writing stays still. Kafka’s one-paragraph story