Cora Diamond: Later philosophy on Liberating

Cora Diamond : The Realistic Spirit

Introduction II

notes p.33

1. The notion in the later philosophy of philosophy as liberating is thus tied to an ability to look at the use without imposing on it what one thinks must already be there in it.

2. The notion of use itself and what is meant by giving or presenting it thus also changes: an expression is not presented timelessly--its use is not given --by the general form of the proposition it characterizes; use can be seen only as belonging to the spatial, temporal phenomenon of language.