Cora Diamond : Throwing away the ladder

Cora Diamond : Throwing away the ladder

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about the aim of philosophy : to delimit, to delineate and to demarcate

4.112. Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts.
Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity.

A philosophical work consists essentially of elucidations.
Philosophy does not result in ' philosophical propositions ', but rather in the clarification of propositions.

Without philosophy thoughts are, as it were, cloudy and indistinct : its task is to make them clear and to give sharp boundaries.

4.114. It must set limits to what can be thought; and, in doing so, to what cannot be thought.
It must set limits to what cannot be thought by working outwards through what can be thought.