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Full Idea
Linguistic philosophy gives careful attention to actual linguistic usage as a method of dealing with problems of philosophy, resulting in either their solution or dissolution.
Gist of Idea
Linguistic philosophy approaches problems by attending to actual linguistic usage
Source
Thomas Mautner (Penguin Dictionary of Philosophy [1996], p.318)
Book Ref
Mautner,Thomas: 'Dictionary of Philosophy' [Penguin 1997], p.318
A Reaction
This approach is now deeply discredited and unfashionable, and, I think (on the whole), rightly so. Philosophy should aim a little higher in (say) epistemology than merely describing how people use words like 'know' and 'believe' and 'justify'.