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Ideas for 'Isagoge ('Introduction')', 'Causality: Reductionism versus Realism' and 'The Gay (Joyful) Science'

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1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 5. Linguistic Analysis
Grammar only reveals popular metaphysics [Nietzsche]
     Full Idea: The snares of grammar are the metaphysics of the people.
     From: Friedrich Nietzsche (The Gay (Joyful) Science [1882], §354)
     A reaction: If you have this elitist view of metaphysics, then linguistic analysis is just a branch of anthropology.