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[from 'Causal Powers' by Harré,R./Madden,E.H., in 1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 4. Conceptual Analysis ]

Full Idea

Adequate accounts of those concepts which are neither purely formal nor simply psychological can be achieved by attention to ....the content of our knowledge, content which goes beyond the reports of immediate experience.

Gist of Idea

Analysis of concepts based neither on formalism nor psychology can arise from examining what we know

Source

Harré,R./Madden,E.H. (Causal Powers [1975], 1.I.A)

Book Reference

Harré,R/Madden,E.H.: 'Causal Powers: A Theory of Natural Necessity' [Blackwell 1975], p.3


A Reaction

I like this one. Most proponents of analysis are either bogged down in trying to reduce all of our talk to formal logic, or else they think that they are just analysing how we think. It's neither, because the concepts arise from the world.