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Full Idea
If you start with language and try to work your way outwards, you will never get outside language.
Gist of Idea
If you begin philosophy with language, you find yourself trapped in it
Source
John Heil (From an Ontological Point of View [2003], Pref)
Book Ref
Heil,John: 'From an Ontological Point of View' [OUP 2005], p.-9
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.