Cora Diamond : Intro 2-1

Cora Diamond- The Realistic Spirit

notes p.35

1. The common thing: they do not invite us to give up the making of philosophical propositions because such propositions are nonsensical (because they are a priori, or departures from some language-game, or in whatver other way fail to meet some supposed requirement).

2. They both treat philosophical propositions as constructions we make on the basis of linguistic analogies, patterns, or images in our language.

3. We may come to see that we do not want to go on doing anything with these linguistic constructions; the satisfaction of our needs does not lie that way.

4. We abandon them; we leave them unused; we say "These we do not want." To call them nonsensical is to exclude them in that way from the commerce of our lives.