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Full Idea
Under 'analysis' a minimum would include the Socratic quest for definitions, Descartes' search for simple natures, the empiricists' psychological resolution of complex ideas, and Kant's 'transcendental' analysis of our cognitive capacities.
Gist of Idea
Analysis must include definitions, search for simples, concept analysis, and Kant's analysis
Source
Hans-Johann Glock (What is Analytic Philosophy? [2008], 6.1)
Book Ref
Glock,Han-Johann: 'What is Analytic Philosophy?' [CUP 2008], p.154
A Reaction
This has always struck me, and I find the narrow focus on modern logic a very distorted idea of the larger project. The aim, I think, is to understand by taking things apart, in the spirit of figuring out how a watch works.
| 22332 | German and British idealism is not about individual ideas, but the intelligibility of reality [Glock] |
| 22334 | Analysis must include definitions, search for simples, concept analysis, and Kant's analysis [Glock] |
| 22336 | We might say that the family resemblance is just a consequence of meaning-as-use [Glock] |
| 22335 | The variety of uses of 'game' may be that it has several meanings, and isn't a single concept [Glock] |