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Ideas for Hermarchus, David Hildebrand and John Heil

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1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 5. Linguistic Analysis

7001	If you begin philosophy with language, you find yourself trapped in it [Heil]
	Full Idea: If you start with language and try to work your way outwards, you will never get outside language.
	From: John Heil (From an Ontological Point of View [2003], Pref)
	A reaction: This voices my pessimism about the linguistic approach to philosophy (and I don't just mean analysis of ordinary language), though I wonder if the career of (say) John Searle is a counterexample.